----- Original Message ----- From: "James M Woods" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Swerve'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'discuss'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 4:35 AM Subject: RE: ? for Opensrs folks. /Management.
> Hi Josh, > > Here's the thing, I hear what you're saying about having a link in RWI that > allows "unfettered" access to whois, this would be super useful when doing > transfers and such. I'm with you there. > > However the problem with doing so at this time is that I have no method of > gauging abuse from within without many additional hours of dev work. Since > introducing this speed bump on the public page we've seen a pretty decent > decrease in lookups per IP on the whole and that is a good thing for all of > us and a bad thing for Nigerians with $25 million to share ;) The setup fee > would be a small price to pay for miners to gain "unfettered" access to our > data again. > > I also really like the lookup idea brought forward by Adam (consider that on > the TLD product Manager's wish list as well) > > I've got a pretty good idea of how I can get both these requests in there > for you all, with limits (daily caps?) but it's not going to be until the > new year (March/April timeframe) before we see this get developed and > promoted. Fair? > > In the interim, if its any help, what I do personally is always have a term > window open in Linux (sorry ms fans ;) and just do a whois straight from the > shell. There is an easier way for non technical people to access the whois. Go to www.samspade.org Look for Sam Spade for Windows Its a network tools console that does whois lookups, traceroute an other useful things. The list of whois servers is a bit out of date but you can add others by tweaking the windows registry settings for it, or just default to whois.geektools.com Personally I couldn't live without it. I can't see any limit on the number of whois queries I can do via this tool or shell access. There is clearly no limit on access to whois.crsnic.net and this provides a lot of the info required during a transfer. Regards Gordon Hudson Hostroute.com Ltd www.hostroute.net ------------------------------------------------
