[130500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Oct 4 16:58:19 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <ABAE1072-5066-4FA3-8620-43E8C434B56C@arin.net>
Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 10:58:06 -1000
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, John Curran wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one.
> 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.
Looking at the graph on your 3 slide, it looks like ARIN is getting =
around 3200 whois queries per second. How much of that query load is a =
result of non-port 43 queries (that is, making use of the REST features =
in the new server)? It looks like the exponentiation in query load =
started around the same time the Whois-RWS was deployed...=20
Regards,
-drc
