John D. Hardin wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Jeff Chan wrote:
Quoting Matt Kettler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
The only big difference I see at face value is it uses whois instead of
DNS to find the NS records.. that hardly seems efficient..
Whois is definitely the wrong protocol to use for automated
testing, especially for any high volumes. It was not designed or
intended for that purpose, which is arguably abusive.
There seems to be a desire for someone to set up a URIBL for domains
registered with spam-friendly registrars. That's the logical way to go
about it. Then the domains could be bulk-updated from the registrar
feeds rather than abusing whois.
True, but the whois plugin doesn't check registrars. It checks
nameservers advertised in whois. Period.
To quote it's author:
"The URIWhois does not detect the registrar. It detects the name and the
address of the DNS- and whois-defined NSes for that domain."
