On 2002-05-01 (Wednesday) at 13:36:19 -0700, bill@daze.net wrote:
>
> > Do we have any idea when the V boys will unblock WHOIS lookups
> > from Tucows? Or should I rewrite my WHOIS script to do all my
> > .com, .net, .org lookups through them? I'd hate to do that. I
> > like the *extra* info the Tucows server gives, but if their going
> > to block us forever, I guess I'll have to.
>
> Been there, done that. Netsol started blocking our direct whois lookups
> as well. They suggested we use the web interface (so they can make money
> off of their pretty ads I guess)
I started hitting NetSol's rate limiter on their whois server a few
years back so got the source to whois, added a "-b bindaddr" option
then wrote a little perl wrapper that would pick a random IP address
from those that the local machine's using and use that as the argument
to the -b option. As the machine I run it on uses 32 IP addesses (and
used to use 512!) I've never had a problem since.
Mark.
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