[137264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Self-referential whois queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rubens Kuhl)
Thu Feb 10 14:27:49 2011
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:27:26 -0200
From: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'm noticing an increase in getting "query rate exceeded" at whois
services that might be connected to a symptom described by ARIN at
NANOG 48/ARIN XXV and ARIN XXVI where machines ask for the whois
record of their own IP address.
Are there any clues of what is causing this ?
Rubens
