[28105] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Solutions, HOSTS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Mon Apr 10 22:40:09 2000
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From: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:38:04 -0400 (EDT)
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[ On Monday, April 10, 2000 at 22:01:59 (-0400), Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: Network Solutions, HOSTS
>
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:37:50 EDT, Tom Spindler <dogcow@ccs.neu.edu> said:
> > Also, whois.geektools.com has been banned by NSI from making queries.
>
> Well.. is the geektools stuff open source?
>
> Would NSI rather get the queries from ONE place, or from EVERYWHERE?
IIRC there's been policy in place in the past that clearly stated they
would ban or rate-limit any client doing more than some set limit of
WHOIS queries.
So, yes, NSI does want to get WHOIS queries from everywhere and not from
one central query engine.
I can almost see their paranoid intellectual property guys making a case
to prove that geektools was actualy saving the results of all the
queries going through in an attempt to harvest the database..... ;-)
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