----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Brody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Christopher X. Candreva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "'discuss'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: ? for Opensrs folks. /Management.


> In a couple of weeks I will have a browser plug in that puts whois into
the
> IE toolbar.  It uses the whois on my site.  If anyone is interested in
this
> please let me know.
>
> Michael

We have a public whois script on our web site.
It does worry me though because there have been cases of these programs
being hijacked by harvesters resulting in the offending IP's being blocked
for legitimate lookup.

We could restrict it so it does not recurse to registrars name servers (i.e.
just use whois.opensrs.net for the domains we source from Tucows) but then
it would become a less useful tool.

Regards

Gordon Hudson
Hostroute.com Ltd
www.hostroute.net




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