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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]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 ([email protected]) > Sr Vice President of Engineering > Network Solutions, Inc. > Cheers, Alan
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