[19194] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael L. Barrow)
Wed Sep 2 11:42:55 1998
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 08:28:55 -0700
From: "Michael L. Barrow" <mlbarrow@eni.net>
To: Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems <sully@votiv.com>
CC: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz@internic.net>, NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
> Why don't you just allow ftp access to the whois database, and let others
> serve up the data?
Because the bad people will be able to do arbitrary searches on the data
to spam and figure out what domains have been removed. You know,
generally make our lives more difficult! =)
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Michael L. Barrow * <mlbarrow@eni.net> * Network Engineer
Epoch Internet * DSL Engineering * (949) 399-8413
