• BLS (7/7) Nov 08 2008 Hi I want to do bulk queries on whois engines. Everthing works fine for
• Alan Knowles (5/12) Nov 08 2008 The whois servers rate limit to stop spammers from farming them..

BLS <nanali nospam-wanadoo.fr> writes:

Hi I want to do bulk queries on whois engines. Everthing works fine for 
a single request. whois("suneido.com") for instance. The problem is that 
the whois servers  are disconnecting after 1 request. I know about a few 
desktop whois apps which are able to do bulk queries..
Questions is what is the big trick ? This seems to be a good kept 
secret. Any ideas ?
Bjoern

Alan Knowles <alan akbkhome.com> writes:

The whois servers rate limit to stop spammers from farming them..

sleep() is probably your best answer....

Regards
Alan

BLS wrote:
 Hi I want to do bulk queries on whois engines. Everthing works fine for 
 a single request. whois("suneido.com") for instance. The problem is that 
 the whois servers  are disconnecting after 1 request. I know about a few 
 desktop whois apps which are able to do bulk queries..
 Questions is what is the big trick ? This seems to be a good kept 
 secret. Any ideas ?
 Bjoern