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Re: Self-referential whois queries
From: John Kristoff <jtk () cymru com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:17:59 -0600
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:27:26 -0200 Rubens Kuhl <rubensk () gmail com> wrote:
I'm noticing an increase in getting "query rate exceeded" at whois services that might be connected to a symptom described by ARIN at NANOG 48/ARIN XXV and ARIN XXVI where machines ask for the whois record of their own IP address. Are there any clues of what is causing this ?
Some spam bots do these automated self-referential queries, but if you are seeing those rate exceeded messages when you perform queries from your client, you may simply be probably bumping up against a limit for the source host or network in question. John
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