> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > Paul G > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "joe mcguckin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Dan Lockwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "NANOG" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:53 AM > Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries > > > > > > altho arguably its not up to arin to provide processing > power for all > these > > deployments. > > > > if you can get a local copy why not have your clients > resolve back to > that? > > that is the point of his post actually - arin told him that > he can't do that > without pointing out where this is prohibited in the aup. i > can see their > point - they're trying to restrict the practicality of > attempting to harvest > the data and an open to the public whois server with no > access restrictions > would defeat that.
I don't know that this is the case, I suspect it's resource management. If the database is getting slaughtered by applications on uncontrolled auto pilot, it's unusable for the rest of us. -M<
