[19190] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems)
Wed Sep 2 10:40:53 1998
From: "Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems" <sully@votiv.com>
To: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz@internic.net>, "NANOG" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:21:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: <199809012103.RAA08386@dewey.internic.net>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> David H. Holtzman
> Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 5:04 PM
> To: NANOG
> Subject: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
>
>
>
> 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
This seems totally inappropriate.
> - 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.
>
Why don't you just allow ftp access to the whois database, and let others
serve up the data?
>
> _____________________________________
> David H. Holtzman (dholtz@internic.net)
> Sr Vice President of Engineering
> Network Solutions, Inc.
>
Cheers,
Alan
