[19183] in North American Network Operators' Group
NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David H. Holtzman)
Tue Sep 1 17:23:55 1998
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:03:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz@internic.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Network Solutions has been seeing increased traffic on whois
in the last few months. The number of queries has approximately
doubled each month since June. At this time, 40% of our inbound
http traffic is whois related. In an attempt to alleviate some
of the load on the servers, we have taken the following steps:
- Some of the worst offenders (single site, large number of accesses) will
be blocked from access starting this week
- Replication of the whois data will be started earlier in the evening to
allow for more timely updates
- Existing whois hosts have had processor and memory upgrades
- Local file storage is now being used vice NFS
- Medium-term and long-term development efforts are underway to redesign
whois for optimal performance. This includes in-memory searches, better
parsing and dynamic updates obviating the need for large daily data movements.
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David H. Holtzman (dholtz@internic.net)
Sr Vice President of Engineering
Network Solutions, Inc.
