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RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois
From: "Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems" <sully () votiv com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 17:21:46 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of David H. Holtzman Sent: Tuesday, September 01, 1998 5:04 PM To: NANOG Subject: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Network Solutions has been seeing increased traffic on whois in the last few months. The number of queries has approximately doubled each month since June. At this time, 40% of our inbound http traffic is whois related. In an attempt to alleviate some of the load on the servers, we have taken the following steps: - Some of the worst offenders (single site, large number of accesses) will be blocked from access starting this week
This seems totally inappropriate.
- Replication of the whois data will be started earlier in the evening to allow for more timely updates - Existing whois hosts have had processor and memory upgrades - Local file storage is now being used vice NFS - Medium-term and long-term development efforts are underway to redesign whois for optimal performance. This includes in-memory searches, better parsing and dynamic updates obviating the need for large daily data movements.
Why don't you just allow ftp access to the whois database, and let others serve up the data?
_____________________________________ David H. Holtzman (dholtz () internic net) Sr Vice President of Engineering Network Solutions, Inc.
Cheers, Alan
Current thread:
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois, (continued)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Andy Walden (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Bill Becker (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Patrick Greenwell (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Dean Robb (Sep 04)
- RE: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Alan Sullivan - VoTiV Systems (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Michael L. Barrow (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Kevin Oberman (Sep 02)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Karl Denninger (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Steven J. Sobol (Sep 03)
- Re: NSI Bulletin 098-010 | Update on Whois Eric Germann (Sep 03)