-----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
deployments.
if you can get a local copy why not have your clients resolve back to
power for all these 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<