Whois lookups (was: 2010.10.04 NANOG50 day 1 morning notes posted)

[jcurran at arin.net (John Curran)]

On Oct 4, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
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> Or the new whois doesn't scale as well as the old one.

Seth - 
 
  New WHOIS scales much better than the old one; it would have 
  extremely challenging to assemble enough equipment to handle 
  the current query rate.  Look at the NANOG presentation slide
  for the exact query rate graph, but we're handling orders of 
  magnitude more queries at present.

/John