High volume WHOIS queries

Tue Mar 1 14:21:54 UTC 2005

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan at verisign.com>
To: "Paul G" <paul at rusko.us>; <nanog at merit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: High volume WHOIS queries

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu]On Behalf Of
>> Paul G
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:03 AM
>> To: nanog at 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