Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)
David Conrad
drc at virtualized.org
Mon Oct 4 20:58:06 UTC 2010
On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, John Curran wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
>> Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one.
> New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have
> extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle
> the current query rate. Look at the NANOG presentation slide
> for the exact query rate graph, but we're handling orders of
> magnitude more queries at present.
Looking at the graph on your 3 slide, it looks like ARIN is getting around 3200 whois queries per second. How much of that query load is a result of non-port 43 queries (that is, making use of the REST features in the new server)? It looks like the exponentiation in query load started around the same time the Whois-RWS was deployed...
Regards,
-drc
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