I think the query limit is 20/hr from any single IP address, it is to prevent mining of the whois db.

Brett

Voytek Eymont wrote:
I just tried to run a whois on a com.au domain, and, what I got was:

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[<echidna>-]whois aname.com.au

BLACKLISTED: You have exceeded the query limit for your IP address and have been
 blacklisted. This restriction will be removed in 24 hours.

%%% End of referred query result

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it 's only on 'com.au' domains I get that, other whois servers reply OK

this whois was executed from my web/mail/dns server, there are no shell users (apart
from me, infequently). today was 1st time in days if not weeks that I executed whois

I guess it's implying there is some recurrent whois queries running from a web user ??

perplexed.


Voytek Eymont

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