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----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[email protected]> To: "joe mcguckin" <[email protected]> Cc: "Dan Lockwood" <[email protected]>; "NANOG" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 4:53 AM Subject: 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? that is the point of his post actually - arin told him that he can't do that without pointing out where this is prohibited in the aup. i can see their point - they're trying to restrict the practicality of attempting to harvest the data and an open to the public whois server with no access restrictions would defeat that. perhaps asking arin if they would consent to you running a server open to registered users of your app behind authentication of some sort is worth a try? -p --- paul galynin
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