NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois

Wed Sep 2 15:59:31 UTC 1998

How many queries per day do you see?  Given the simplicity of a 
typical query, I'd expect that a single server could handle many 
millions of requests/day.  

> mentioned by David Holtzman is to control _abuse_ of the whois service.
> Otherwise, the load on whois will grow without bounds and we'd
> eventually have to pay more in registration fees. Of course, that's just
> my figurin' and nothing official...