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Re: High volume WHOIS queries
From: Bill Nash <billn () billn net>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 06:47:23 -0800 (PST)
On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Paul G wrote:
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.well, the OP quoted a portion of the aup that requires bulk whois data recipients to take measures to prevent harvesting, so i presume that arin does care about that and, in fact, that consideration is likely the reason they declined to permit the OP to run *his own* whoisd off of his *local* copy of the data.
If memory serves, that restriction didn't appear until spam became a problem. The verbiage in the AUP is there to give ARIN recourse in the event that some spammer, and it has happened, runs a harvest against domain names or serialized NIC handles to seed a spam source.
- billn
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