From: Paul G (no email)
Date: Tue Mar 01 2005 - 09:21:54 EST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <>
To: "Paul G" <>; <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:17 AM
Subject: RE: High volume WHOIS queries
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:]On Behalf Of
>> Paul G
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 5:03 AM
>> To:
>> Subject: Re: High volume WHOIS queries
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>> 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.
well, the OP quoted a portion of the aup that requires bulk
whois data recipients to take measures to prevent harvesting,
so i presume that arin does care about that and, in fact, that
consideration is likely the reason they declined to permit the
OP to run *his own* whoisd off of his *local* copy of the data.
-p
--- paul galynin
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