Whois Protocol
This page provides information on the Whois Protocol detected by the Netify DPI engine. The protocol operates on TCP port 43, an officially registered port assigned by the IANA.
Protocol Description
Whois is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying domain names, IP addresses, ASNs, and other network information.
Please see the protocol catalog page for information on other protocols detected by Netify DPI.
Protocol Details
- ID
- 170
- Category Tag
- networking
- Category
- Networking
- Introduced
- Version 2.88
Protocol Ports - RFC
- TCP 43
- Whois
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