[19197] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Wed Sep 2 12:11:28 1998
To: mlbarrow@eni.net (Michael L. Barrow)
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 11:59:31 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: ckp@vanion.com, dholtz@internic.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <35ED64F2.8A30F821@eni.net> from "Michael L. Barrow" at Sep 2, 98 08:32:02 am
From: jzeeff@verio.net (Jon Zeeff)
Reply-to: jon@zeeff.com
How many queries per day do you see? Given the simplicity of a
typical query, I'd expect that a single server could handle many
millions of requests/day.
> mentioned by David Holtzman is to control _abuse_ of the whois service.
> Otherwise, the load on whois will grow without bounds and we'd
> eventually have to pay more in registration fees. Of course, that's just
> my figurin' and nothing official...
