[130495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Oct 4 15:59:23 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 15:58:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <4CAA0E09.2020406@rollernet.us>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>=20
>=20
> Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one.
Seth -=20
=20
New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have=20
extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle=20
the current query rate. Look at the NANOG presentation slide
for the exact query rate graph, but we're handling orders of=20
magnitude more queries at present.
/John
