-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of David H. Holtzman Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 5:04 PM To: NANOG Subject: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
Network Solutions has been seeing increased traffic on whois in the last few months. The number of queries has approximately doubled each month since June. At this time, 40% of our inbound http traffic is whois related. In an attempt to alleviate some of the load on the servers, we have taken the following steps:
- Some of the worst offenders (single site, large number of accesses) will be blocked from access starting this week This seems totally inappropriate. - Replication of the whois data will be started earlier in the evening to allow for more timely updates - Existing whois hosts have had processor and memory upgrades - Local file storage is now being used vice NFS - Medium-term and long-term development efforts are underway to redesign whois for optimal performance. This includes in-memory searches, better parsing and dynamic updates obviating the need for large daily data movements.
Why don't you just allow ftp access to the whois database, and let others serve up the data?
_____________________________________ David H. Holtzman (dholtz@internic.net) Sr Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.
Cheers, Alan