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RE: High volume WHOIS queries
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan () verisign com>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:17:48 -0500
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of Paul G Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:03 AM To: nanog () merit edu Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve () telecomplete co uk> To: "joe mcguckin" <joe () via net> Cc: "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood () shastacoe org>; "NANOG" <nanog () merit edu> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:53 AM Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queriesaltho arguably its not up to arin to provide processingpower for all thesedeployments. if you can get a local copy why not have your clientsresolve back to that? that is the point of his post actually - arin told him that he can't do that without pointing out where this is prohibited in the aup. i can see their point - they're trying to restrict the practicality of attempting to harvest the data and an open to the public whois server with no access restrictions would defeat that.
I don't know that this is the case, I suspect it's resource management. If the database is getting slaughtered by applications on uncontrolled auto pilot, it's unusable for the rest of us. -M<
Current thread:
- High volume WHOIS queries Dan Lockwood (Feb 28)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries joe mcguckin (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Paul G (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Jeff Bartig (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Larry J. Blunk (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Hank Nussbacher (Mar 02)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Daniel Senie (Mar 02)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Stephen J. Wilcox (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries joe mcguckin (Mar 01)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- RE: High volume WHOIS queries Hannigan, Martin (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Paul G (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Bill Nash (Mar 01)
- [off-list] Re: High volume WHOIS queries Rich Kulawiec (Mar 01)
- Re: High volume WHOIS queries Paul G (Mar 01)
- RE: High volume WHOIS queries Hannigan, Martin (Mar 01)