The WHOIS protocol is commonly used to obtain information about IP addresses and domain names from regional Internet registries and registrar databases. For example one might use the whois command to find registration information about an IP address: ❯ whois 1.1.1.1 % [whois.apnic.net] % Whois dat…

This helped a lot last year. I enhanced the server.py script (e.g. to indicate missing data): https://blog.shimps.org/blogpost544-whois-h-localhost import argparse import asyncio import maxminddb import ipaddress SEPARATOR = b"\r\n" class Handler: def __init__(self, database): self.read…

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Create a WHOIS server from scratch

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