North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: High volume WHOIS queries
altho arguably its not up to arin to provide processing power for all these deployments. if you can get a local copy why not have your clients resolve back to that? Steve On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, joe mcguckin wrote: > > > How about caching the data from previous ARIN whois lookups? > > I do agree that the bulk data and high volume limitations on whois servers > are silly... > > -joe > > > On 2/28/05 1:30 PM, "Dan Lockwood" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm in a disagreement with ARIN about my application for bulk whois > > data. I've got a software program that needs resolve AS numbers to the > > Company Name of the owner. The software app has need to do this on a > > very high volume. E.g. I run a report that returns the top 100 AS > > destinations for my network and I want to resolve the numbers to the > > names as part of the report generation. Since ARIN throttles the number > > of queries that you can execute against their servers I seems to "just > > make sense" that you would do the processing using local data. > > > > That is all fine and good, but the problem comes when I distribute the > > software to users. ARIN's AUP for bulk whois states: > > > > "Redistributing bulk ARIN WHOIS data is explicitly forbidden. It is > > permissible to publish the data on an individual query or > > small number of queries at a time basis, as long as reasonable > > precautions are taken to prevent automated querying by > > database harvesters." > > > > My original AUP application stated that I would transfer the data to the > > users using an XML file on a regular basis. Clearly in violation of the > > first point. Fine. But now after a phone conversation they are telling > > me that I can not operate a server to distribute the data on a "per > > query" basis too. Providing a server that answers whois queries just > > like ARIN seems to be clearly permissible based on the remaining AUP > > verbage. At this point the only thing I can get out of the guy/gal on > > the phone is "NO!". > > > > Does anyone have any experience doing something like this? How about a > > sanity check? Am I completely wrong in how I'm interpreting the AUP? > > > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > >
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