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[ On Monday, April 10, 2000 at 22:01:59 (-0400), [email protected] wrote: ] > Subject: Re: Network Solutions, HOSTS > > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 18:37:50 EDT, Tom Spindler <[email protected]> said: > > Also, whois.geektools.com has been banned by NSI from making queries. > > Well.. is the geektools stuff open source? > > Would NSI rather get the queries from ONE place, or from EVERYWHERE? IIRC there's been policy in place in the past that clearly stated they would ban or rate-limit any client doing more than some set limit of WHOIS queries. So, yes, NSI does want to get WHOIS queries from everywhere and not from one central query engine. I can almost see their paranoid intellectual property guys making a case to prove that geektools was actualy saving the results of all the queries going through in an attempt to harvest the database..... ;-) -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 218-0098 VE3TCP <[email protected]> <robohack!woods> Planix, Inc. <[email protected]>; Secrets of the Weird <[email protected]>
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