Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread Nathan Eisenberg
http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-morning-notes.txt Whois traffic has been going through the roof; they added more proxies in front to support it. Apparently, there's IP management packages that do whois queries. It would be good to find out who is doing it, and talk to ARIN

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread Seth Mattinen
On 10/4/2010 10:05, Nathan Eisenberg wrote: http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2010.10.04-NANOG50-morning-notes.txt Whois traffic has been going through the roof; they added more proxies in front to support it. Apparently, there's IP management packages that do whois queries. It would be good

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread John Curran
On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one. Seth - New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle the current query rate. Look at the NANOG

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread David Conrad
On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, John Curran wrote: On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one. New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle the current

Re: Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

2010-10-04 Thread Mark Kosters
On 10/4/10 4:58 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On Oct 4, 2010, at 9:58 AM, John Curran wrote: On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one. New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have extremely