[78315] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: High volume WHOIS queries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul G)
Tue Mar 1 09:26:04 2005
From: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 09:21:54 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Paul G" <paul@rusko.us>; <nanog@merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: High volume WHOIS queries
>> -----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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>> point - they're trying to restrict the practicality of
>> attempting to harvest
>> the data and an open to the public whois server with no
>> access restrictions
>> would defeat that.
> I don't know that this is the case, I suspect it's
> resource management. If the database is getting
> slaughtered by applications on uncontrolled auto pilot,
> it's unusable for the rest of us.
well, the OP quoted a portion of the aup that requires bulk
whois data recipients to take measures to prevent harvesting,
so i presume that arin does care about that and, in fact, that
consideration is likely the reason they declined to permit the
OP to run *his own* whoisd off of his *local* copy of the data.
-p
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paul galynin
