[11991] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Is this just a rumor?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Tue Aug 26 16:37:31 1997
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@tiac.net>
To: rnelson@internoc.com (Robert T. Nelson)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 16:34:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: jdfalk@priori.net, lsilver@flycast.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970826135125.10597N-100000@ns1.internoc.com> from "Robert T. Nelson" at Aug 26, 97 01:54:25 pm
>
> On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, J.D. Falk wrote:
>
> > On Aug 26, Lincoln Silver <lsilver@flycast.com> wrote:
> >
[ snip ]
> Whois info is available, but not in quantity. It appears that InterNIC
> will cut connections after dumping too much data out from the same host in
> "X" period of time. I have not 100% confirmed this, but tests seem to show
> it.
They announced it in Tampa. They said they were limiting
connections in X period of time because of spam idiots/domain
speculators, etc. etc. Generally, abuse.
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