Re: Recommendations for RDAP client in Bookworm?

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Jeffrey Walton wrote: 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> It looks like Bookworm does not provide a RDAP client.  Searching for
> rdap and openrdap in Debians packages does not provide meaningful
> results:
> 
>     $ apt-cache search rdap
>     ruby-discordrb-webhooks - webhook client for discordrb
>     libxrdapputils2 - Utilities library for xrootd applications
> 
> I see Trixie does offer a RDAP package, however.  Cf.,
> <https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=default&section=all&arch=any&searchon=names&keywords=rdap>.
> 
> Sunsetting WHOIS is important.  See, for example, the MOBI takeover
> and "IANA whois information" (Sept 2024),
> <https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/mAl9XjieSkA/m/lF81k0YYAgAJ>.
> 
> What do folks recommend on Bookworm?

Upgrading to Stable before WHOIS is discarded, or backporting rdap.

-dsr-