Jer Warren on Nostr: >"As you can imagine, maintainers of WHOIS tooling are reluctant to scrape such a ...

>"As you can imagine, maintainers of WHOIS tooling are reluctant to scrape such a textual list at runtime, and so it has become the norm to simply hardcode server addresses, populating them at development time by referring to IANA’s list manually."

This is a really good read (unless you get stressed learning about the fragility of the piles of crap we all depend upon.)

https://labs.watchtowr.com/we-spent-20-to-achieve-rce-and-accidentally-became-the-admins-of-mobi/