On Wed, Nov 20, 2002, Ian Smith wrote:
>  > > But that's not the issue - it's like the locks on the door - really 
>  > > there to keep the honest people away. It's easier to get around the 
>  > > lookup limits in other ways that generating custom request headers...
>  > 
>  > Well, if you want a reasonably foolproof setup why not ask ausregistry 
>  > to implement
>  > an authenticated whois-style system? Then you can perform some useful 
>  > statistical
>  > checks on the access patterns.
> 
> Sure why not, but meanwhile how hard is it to set your AnyBrowser to not
> use the proxy cache for ausregistry.com.au if you do want to use HTTP? 

Transparent proxies?

Hm. I remember someone §ausregistry pointing out an alternate whois
server (with no restrictions?) which only returned an ACK/NAK. Is that
still operational and if so, where would it be?





Adrian

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