I'm not sure what advantage a monitor would provide. All it could do is
confirm that Verisign is not responding.
<Personal Opinion>
I think the problem stems from the fact that the real-time whois lookup
was designed only to ensure a domain name is free just before you
registered it. The expected load was one lookup per domain registration.
However, alot of people don't use it that way. Because it is far
superior to conventional lookups, they use it for everything. We
experience hundreds of lookups per domain reg.
Hopefully, Verisign will realise the problem and correct it.
</Personal Opinion>
Philippe Landau wrote:
>
> >Please be aware that Lookups are not done on our system. We query
> they go through your servers.
> do you monitor your servers in a way that could help us see troubles ?
> automatic quality control could greatly help improve reliability.
> otherwise we will still be writing things like "works great from here"
> in a year from now, while daily loosing customers due to failing processes.
>
> and considering this was discussed months ago already,
> are there plans for public progress-tracking tools for opensrs ?
> or are there reasons to keep things closed and promise openness ?
>
> kind regards philippe, http://InternetRoot.com
>
> --- *** ---
> >Verisign's root server directly. I have never had trouble getting a
> >response but I also never use it at peak times.
> >
> >
> >Philippe Landau wrote:
> >>
> >> yes, after domain lookups were never fast, the chronic problems
> >> with server reliability become daily harder to ignore.
> >> please, opensrs, take a step back and conduct an internal review,
> >> subsequently informing us of the steps necessary to improve the system.
