On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 17:27:26 -0200 Rubens Kuhl <rube...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm noticing an increase in getting "query rate exceeded" at whois > services that might be connected to a symptom described by ARIN at > NANOG 48/ARIN XXV and ARIN XXVI where machines ask for the whois > record of their own IP address. > > Are there any clues of what is causing this ? Some spam bots do these automated self-referential queries, but if you are seeing those rate exceeded messages when you perform queries from your client, you may simply be probably bumping up against a limit for the source host or network in question. John
