[28107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Solutions, HOSTS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Mon Apr 10 22:50:29 2000
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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 19:44:57 -0700
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
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"Greg A. Woods" wrote:
> 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..... ;-)
As I said, a totally valid point, if it weren't for the fact that we
received permission :-(
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Rodney Joffe
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