[76436] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: no whois info ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Dec 10 07:34:04 2004
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 18:00:44 +0530
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
To: Peter Corlett <abuse@cabal.org.uk>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <cpc48s$a7n$1@dopiaza.cabal.org.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Peter Corlett wrote:
> There's some awful tinpot domain registrars out there where you have
> to wonder if their whois server is on the end of a dialup link, but
> fortunately I'm not attempting to access those. Connectivity from here
> to the CRSNIC server is good and no worse than to any other server I
> may wish to query for purposes of black- or greylisting.
Doing live queries of domain names like that, on the fly - even if you
cache lookup data - will lead to your IP getting rate limited or even
blocked by most whois servers, unless you register your IP with them for
doing bulk whois lookups.
srs
