I should have been a bit more specific. The hacked up traceroute-ng queries the radb, not a whoisd. I've never had problems being blocked when doing radb queries, but YMMV, of course. I also suggest that people be nice and rate-limit their queries so that others don't have to do it for them... -Dave On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:04:51PM -0500, George Bakos quacked:
Careful. Many whoisds don't appreciate automated queries & will block YOUR ip address for sometime if you cross their max query rate threshold.
You can use a quick perl wrapper around whois, or you could use this terribly ugly hacked up traceroute-ng that I wrote to do lookups:
http://nms.lcs.mit.edu/software/ron/lookup_as.c
Compile with
gcc -DSTANDALONE=1 lookup_as.c -o lookup_as -lm
And then run. It gets the job done, but it's ugly. :)
-Dave
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