[RFCI-Discuss] whois records with single ip address (CIDR aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd/32)

Rhialto rfci-discuss@lists.megacity.org
Thu, 10 Oct 2002 02:42:18 +0200


On Wed 09 Oct 2002 at 19:25:22 +0400, egor duda wrote:
> The words on their web site saying that
> 
> "KRNIC will prohibit excessive querys by blocking network access."
> 
> make me suspect that someone have already tried to perform such search
> "sequentially", by querying information about all addresses assigned
> to KRNIC.

It might be related to this:

    $ whois -h whois.geektools.com 218.234.58.179

    NOTICE:
    KRNIC is currently blocking access to their whois
    service via GeekTools.  Please query their whois
    server directly at whois.nic.or.kr.

which is rather unfriendly of them.

-Olaf.
-- 
___ Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert      -- The evil eye is caused by the black
\X/ rhialto/at/xs4all.nl        -- tongue - Tom Poes, "Het boze oog", 4456.