[tor-bugs] #6695 [Atlas]: add whois info to tor relay info page

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#6695: add whois info to tor relay info page
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    Reporter:  cypherpunks  |       Owner:  hellais 
        Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  reopened
    Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:          
   Component:  Atlas        |     Version:          
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Comment(by hellais):

 Replying to [comment:9 karsten]:
 > Replying to [comment:8 hellais]:
 > > If there were a whois database that has a good API that we can
 interact with, then this may be doable.
 >
 > I agree.  Do you happen to know such a database and/or API that we could
 use?

 ARIN appears to offer such a service: https://www.arin.net/resources
 /restful-interfaces.html.

 Otherwise there are services that offer such a thing appear to be based on
 volume. For example this http://www.whoisxmlapi.com/ gives you for free
 the first 500 queries.

 If we were to go for the later we would definitely need to store them
 somewhere.

 I would first try and see how much data we can get out with the ARIN API
 and if we are breaching their TOS by doing one query per user.

 If there are issues then we need to come up with something that stores the
 result of the queries, or at least caches them if we are interested in
 having such feature.

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