Re: Network Solutions, HOSTS

"Greg A. Woods" wrote:

IIRC there's been policy in place in the past that clearly stated they would ban or rate-limit any client doing more than some set limit of WHOIS queries.

So, yes, NSI does want to get WHOIS queries from everywhere and not from one central query engine.

I can almost see their paranoid intellectual property guys making a case to prove that geektools was actualy saving the results of all the queries going through in an attempt to harvest the database..... ;-)

As I said, a totally valid point, if it weren't for the fact that we received permission :-( -- Rodney Joffe CenterGate Research Group, LLC. http://www.centergate.com "Technology so advanced, even we don't understand it!"(SM)