no whois info ?

Fri Dec 10 12:30:44 UTC 2004

Peter Corlett wrote:

> There's some awful tinpot domain registrars out there where you have
> to wonder if their whois server is on the end of a dialup link, but
> fortunately I'm not attempting to access those. Connectivity from here
> to the CRSNIC server is good and no worse than to any other server I
> may wish to query for purposes of black- or greylisting.

Doing live queries of domain names like that, on the fly - even if you 
cache lookup data - will lead to your IP getting rate limited or even 
blocked by most whois servers, unless you register your IP with them for 
doing bulk whois lookups.

	srs