Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mike Easter Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mageia Subject: Re: WHOIS is being replaced ...? Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2026 10:01:55 -0800 Lines: 44 Message-ID: References: <10i1jd2$kccd$1@dont-email.me> <10jj3gu$1b5d4$1@paganini.bofh.team> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net iCmaKvuhPcBk18QsIdInAgKtip0Vv2wr1XYdWyzdYwVuoZJhAW Cancel-Lock: sha1:y9cFayndKtYr/JoVa/pd9R82tcE= sha256:HakIDckyAmUtS/unhnc7JYlohJn3NGMrgZLiU5pBsO0= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <10jj3gu$1b5d4$1@paganini.bofh.team> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mageia:28037 marc wrote: > Mike Easter wrote: >> Mike Easter wrote: >>> Mike Easter wrote: >>>> OpenRDAP is written in Go >>> >>> I booted a live LMDE LinuxMint DebianEdition and its repo/s included >>> the OpenRDAP commandline client implemented in Go, not installed by >>> default. >>> >> Ha. >> >> I didn't know about repology: >> >> https://repology.org/project/rdap/versions >> >>> Repology monitors a huge number of package repositories and other >>> sources comparing packages versions across them and gathering other >>> information. Repology shows you in which repositories a given >>> project is packaged, which version is the latest and which needs >>> updating, who maintains the package, and other related information. >> >> Repology further illustrates the concept that a LOT of (most, almost >> all except...) linux distro/s do NOT have RDAP package in their repo/s. >> > > Maybe try: https://client.rdap.org/ > I left all of the (stale) preceding untrimmed for 'direct' background context. My comments ranging from rdap to repology was all about the availability of *client packages* for openrdap in various distro/s. Your link is about the availability of a web-based rdap function. Lotsa diff between web-based rdap and a particular client package in a distro/s repo/s. There is also an openrdap site here: https://www.openrdap.org/ -- Mike Easter