At 7/30/02 3:50 PM, Jim McAtee wrote:
>Could OpenSRS please look into nixing the connection limit from the
>Geektools WHOIS proxy? We use this proxy religously from an interface on
>our network (GeekTools was kind enough to eliminate the connection limit
>from our network several years ago). I can't tell from the message being
>returned from OpenSRS if this is a simultaneous connection limit or if it's
>some kind of daily query maximum.
You might want to consider installing a copy of the GeekTools proxy CGI
on your own server. That way your connections to the OpenSRS WHOIS server
aren't mixed with everyone else's.
http://www.geektools.com/software.php
We did this and it works nicely.
(I personally would like to see OpenSRS do *more* rate limiting of the
WHOIS, because it would prevent DRoA, etc. from harvesting so many
addresses.)
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Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
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