On 2002-05-01 (Wednesday) at 13:36:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Do we have any idea when the V boys will unblock WHOIS lookups > > from Tucows? Or should I rewrite my WHOIS script to do all my > > .com, .net, .org lookups through them? I'd hate to do that. I > > like the *extra* info the Tucows server gives, but if their going > > to block us forever, I guess I'll have to. > > Been there, done that. Netsol started blocking our direct whois lookups > as well. They suggested we use the web interface (so they can make money > off of their pretty ads I guess)
I started hitting NetSol's rate limiter on their whois server a few years back so got the source to whois, added a "-b bindaddr" option then wrote a little perl wrapper that would pick a random IP address from those that the local machine's using and use that as the argument to the -b option. As the machine I run it on uses 32 IP addesses (and used to use 512!) I've never had a problem since. Mark.
