[78313] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: High volume WHOIS queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Tue Mar 1 09:18:55 2005
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:17:48 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>, <nanog@merit.edu>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of
> Paul G
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:03 AM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries
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> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
> To: "joe mcguckin" <joe@via.net>
> Cc: "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>; "NANOG"=20
> <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:53 AM
> Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries
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> > altho arguably its not up to arin to provide processing=20
> power for all
> these
> > deployments.
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> > if you can get a local copy why not have your clients=20
> resolve back to
> that?
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> that is the point of his post actually - arin told him that=20
> he can't do that
> without pointing out where this is prohibited in the aup. i=20
> can see their
> point - they're trying to restrict the practicality of=20
> attempting to harvest
> the data and an open to the public whois server with no=20
> access restrictions
> would defeat that.=20
I don't know that this is the case, I suspect it's
resource management. If the database is getting=20
slaughtered by applications on uncontrolled auto pilot,
it's unusable for the rest of us.
-M<
