[40548] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DUL freeloading
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roy)
Sun Aug 12 11:28:51 2001
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Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 08:28:05 -0700
From: Roy <garlic@garlic.com>
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The staff time is the only one I can't address but a "new DUL" that only did zone
transfers (no direct queries) would encourage clones that people could use for
testing. That would probably drop the load significantly.
"John R. Levine" wrote:
> In article <3B757874.C4221651@garlic.com> you write:
> >It would have been nice if we could all agreed on a DUL database that would be
> >distributed free to anyone to use.
>
> Yes indeed. Unless someone knows of a free source of servers, IP
> connectivity, and most importantly staff time, I suspect that it would
> be much cheaper all around to contact MAPS and pay something to use
> the DUL than for each provider to waste its own staff time coming up
> with an inferior "free" substitute.
>
> I can report from experience that MAPS has been very flexible, and is
> likely to accept any reasonable offer for access to its lists.
>
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