Re: Anti Capitalism?

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>]

Kent Crispin writes:
> Perry E. Metzger allegedly said:
> > > Would
> > > the back end repository not also be responsible for generating the
> > > DNS db files and also running a whois service not to mention publishing
> > > all the requests for domains?
> > 
> > It would be responsible for generating reports that would drive the
> > generation of DNS db files and permit the generation of the whois
> > database, but I doubt the machine would be running whois itself.
> 
> So, an obvious question is...who runs whois?

I'll be a bit more informal here than ususal -- this is really just
off the cuff from me.

Who said whois needs to be "run"? "Whois" is very nearly a text search
service on a bunch of contact data -- a comparatively small database,
too. Off the cuff, I'd say, generate the database nightly and put the
database up for FTP along with daily diffs, and let whomever wants to
put up a server. If CORE feels like funding a server or two of their
own, thats fine, too. I suspect the data is useful enough that lots of
people would replicate it. Of course, long run, whois qua whois is
probably dead, given rwhois and such.

Incidently, a machine capable of handling high rates of whois hits
wouldn't have to be especially big or crunchy. I'm just pointing out
that the functionality is segregable.

Perry
Speaking for myself, and not in an official capacity