Re: High volume WHOIS queries

1 Mar 2005


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