On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 10:22:25AM -0500, Mike Allen wrote: > > I guess we will just have a separate link to the SRS who-is and let them > deal with the extra bandwidth for the TLD's they sell ;)
It's no extra bandwidth to OpenSRS for you to point to their whois rather than run a whois "proxy" that queries their server. Whether they pass the data to you or directly to your customers, they're still handing out the data. The only extra data is the 1.5K of fine print, which almost triples the bytes of the average whois query, regardless of recipient. See Ross' email re the Tucows Whois Access Terms. I didn't get an impression from Ross' post as to whether a URL pointer like that was in the works, but it would certainly save some bandwidth. In my view, a "bare-bones" whois for use only by RSPs, IP-restricted, perhaps with an easily parsed RIPE-style output format, would be invaluable. -- Paul Chvostek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Operations / Abuse / Whatever +1 416 598-0000 it.canada - hosting and development http://www.it.ca/
