At 05:03 PM 9/1/98 -0400, you wrote:
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 - 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.
_____________________________________ David H. Holtzman (dholtz@internic.net) Sr Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.
I may be wrong but aren't the fees that Network Solutions is charging for domain name registration "supposed" to cover the costs of providing WHOIS service for those domains? Is this just another attempt to nickel and dime everyone to death on some sort of new usage charge for WHOIS service? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher K. Phillips President - Vanion, Inc. V: 719-574-1826 F: 719-574-1837 C: 719-229-7890 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Enhanced Services Company --------------------------------------------------------------------------