On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, David Cary Hart wrote: > I don't disagree with any of this. In fact, this could be a very > powerful economic boycott which is why I thought about it. I am > only pointing our the administrative difficulties. > > How would you suggest the query mechanism works? I Most whois > servers impose some sort of volume limitation; Many are extremely > slow.
There is caching. It shouldn't do a whois query for a given domain more than once per TTL (which I default to a week). However the initial surge of checking common domains may hit throttling. Also, it doesn't need to go out to the actual registrar for all the details, it just captures the registrar name from the root whois query. However, *most* domains won't be hosted by spam-friendly registrars, and if whois gives you the finger this will return NXDOMAIN, so the worst you'll get is a false negative response for a while, until a definitive response *is* received. > Therefor, this probably warrants a RHSBL with the registrar in the > text record. In turn, that requires getting a listing of all > domains registered by a listed registrar. That's the sticking point. How and where do you obtain that information? Do you have to become a registrar? > How do you keep up with transfers? If it's dynamically collected then transfers don't make sense. Sure, you'll capture the known domains (ones that somebody has asked about within the last $TTL seconds), but the unknown ones will all return NXDOMAIN, leading to FNs. Being able to download the domain->registrar information en masse makes it *much* simpler, you can just reformat it as a zone file and publish it. But then you lose the percentile support that the dynamic server provides. > If someone can figure out the mechanics, I have a volunteer > (working on her MBA) who is great at crafting policy. I also have > the mirrors and structure. I am willing to add the zone. My first > listing would be Gandi. I have a first cut beta available right now, if you want to try it out. It's still rough so you have to edit the source to configure it, but I'd be willing to get some feedback (apart from "OH MY GOD that's hideous code! My eyes! AUGH!"). Contact me off-list if you're interested. -- John Hardin KA7OHZ ICQ#15735746 http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 - 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defense against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad. -- James Madison, 1799 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
