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RE: High volume WHOIS queries
- From: Hannigan, Martin
- Date: Tue Mar 01 09:19:54 2005
> -----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
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@telecomplete.co.uk>
> To: "joe mcguckin" <joe@via.net>
> Cc: "Dan Lockwood" <dlockwood@shastacoe.org>; "NANOG"
> <nanog@merit.edu>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:53 AM
> Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries
>
>
> >
> > altho arguably its not up to arin to provide processing
> power for all
> these
> > deployments.
> >
> > if you can get a local copy why not have your clients
> resolve back to
> that?
>
> that is the point of his post actually - arin told him that
> he can't do that
> without pointing out where this is prohibited in the aup. i
> can see their
> 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.
-M<
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