On 06/09/2014 12:29 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > On 6/9/2014 3:24 PM, Patrick Domack wrote: >> The point was, I have already done this, and have it in production. I >> did this cause this subject keeps coming up from time to time, and I >> was personally interested to see the results of it. >> >> And I do agree with Rob McEwen on many points. And I would be >> hisentant to outright block. But so far, and I doubt much in real >> usage, and haven't found any yet, any issues with blocking <1day >> outright. >> >> But then the only way to be completely sure of that, will be time. > > My conjecture is that many people have built this for lower volume. > But you can't be doing much volume or your IP gets blocked from whois > servers. The twist I want to do is bring more data back centralized > from SA installations such as whois data where it can only be done in > a distributed manner. > > regards, > KAM >
A caching whois client (jwhois, for example) can significantly reduce the volume of queries.
