[19250] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Thu Sep 3 10:38:10 1998
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 09:12:40 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: "David H. Holtzman" <dholtz@internic.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199809031324.JAA26312@ops1.internic.net>; from David H. Holtzman on Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:24:02AM -0400
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:24:02AM -0400, David H. Holtzman wrote:
> I'd like to add some amplifying information :
>
> Two companies are responsible for over 30% of the hits coming into Whois.
> They are not major ISPs. This is almost three times as much as ALL AOL
> users combined. What we are talking about here is abuse of a needed
> service and as such should not be confused with peripheral business issues.
> David H. Holtzman
> Sr VP Engineering, Network Solutions
> dholtz@internic.net
The solution to that problem would seem to be a rate-based filter. :-)
Since you're hitting a dbms, this shouldn't be tough to do either :-)
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