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

[Mally Mclane]

Hi,


On 10/10/02 2:42, "Rhialto" <rhialto@azenomei.knuffel.net> wrote:

> 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.

The way that geektools queries whois servers can be considered as mining for
personal data. Whilst most people know geektools, most whois servers operate
automatic blocking.

There was a period where we had blocked geektools, but we worked with them
to change the way they did it and now they are unblocked.


Regards,



Mally Mclane
RIPE NCC - Operations