At 7/30/02 3:50 PM, Jim McAtee wrote:

>Could OpenSRS please look into nixing the connection limit from the
>Geektools WHOIS proxy?  We use this proxy religously from an interface on
>our network (GeekTools was kind enough to eliminate the connection limit
>from our network several years ago).  I can't tell from the message being
>returned from OpenSRS if this is a simultaneous connection limit or if it's
>some kind of daily query maximum.


You might want to consider installing a copy of the GeekTools proxy CGI 
on your own server. That way your connections to the OpenSRS WHOIS server 
aren't mixed with everyone else's.

  http://www.geektools.com/software.php

We did this and it works nicely.

(I personally would like to see OpenSRS do *more* rate limiting of the 
WHOIS, because it would prevent DRoA, etc. from harvesting so many 
addresses.)

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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies

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