I wish I had access to a small ISP. It is comforting to know that if something goes wrong, on the other end of the line there is someone with a Cisco shell open ready to run a traceroute.
Usually it‘s about standing, resources and options. Serious problems like fibre cuts, local power outages and DDoS attacks are usually not in their scope and they have to wait for 3rd parties to fix these problems with little iptions to speed up those processes. Bigger ISP usually have teams/departments which have well established processes/solutions to tackle these problems. That said, I‘m totally aware that each of them (small or big ISP) have their pros and cons - as always it mainly depends on your use case and requirements.
I'll see what I can cobble together somewhere in the course of the weekend/next week ;) Probably need to file off some rough edges and hardcoded stuff.
Which is still a workound and sometimes buggy - it overwrites an existing search engine. In my case its google. But when I want to use google, I can’t - I have to switch to another browser or deactivate the kagi addon/plugin.
I actually don't want my Kagi plugin to overwrite Google for a different reason: Sometimes the plugin fails to hijack my search, and I really don't want my searches going to Google. So I overwrite DuckDuckGo, so even the fallback is okay.
And what's more. Where do the requests for autocomplete/suggestions get sent? Because the Kagi plugin works by redirecting the result page. So whilst typing the search question in the address bar of the browser requests are made to autocomplete/suggest the search question. These are still sent to Google (or whichever search engine selected).
The big problem there is no easy and consistent way to query RDAP because there are no clients in Debian or Ubuntu. There is one in the experimental stage [1] in Debian, so perhaps in Debian 14?
And yes, I know, there are Perl-Apps [2], Go-Apps [3] and so on which can be installed within minutes. But this extra step (including debugging which happens when compiling/installing from source) isn't going to help RDAP to get traction.
The new icann directive is that they suggest we shutdown whois. So in theory at least there will be only RDAP. I'm guessing all the distros will add something soon.
On the other hand my employer and I imagine most other registries are not planning to shut off whois. Actual people in the real world still use it.
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