3 Sep
1998
3 Sep
'98
10:12 a.m.
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 09:24:02AM -0400, David H. Holtzman wrote:
I'd like to add some amplifying information :
Two companies are responsible for over 30% of the hits coming into Whois. They are not major ISPs. This is almost three times as much as ALL AOL users combined. What we are talking about here is abuse of a needed service and as such should not be confused with peripheral business issues. David H. Holtzman Sr VP Engineering, Network Solutions dholtz@internic.net
The solution to that problem would seem to be a rate-based filter. :-) Since you're hitting a dbms, this shouldn't be tough to do either :-) -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net) Voice: 312-803-6271 x219