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Shane Kerr
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Thu Oct 27 10:13:22 CEST 2005
Andre, Andre Koopal wrote: >On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 05:25:04PM +0200, Daniel Roesen wrote: > > >>On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 12:21:09PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: >> >> >>>>2 - "e-mail" field of the IRT object >>>>Why would you want to hide the "e-mail" field of the IRT object by >>>>default (forcing the use of -B to get it) ? >>>> >>>> >>>Because of morons writing scripts which send mail to every address they >>>see. >>> >>> >>Those morons will just add -B to their scripts. >> >> >> >Which reminds me, why is the hint to use -B in the output of whois. That makes >it very easy to find out. > > IIRC, the idea was never to hide the attributes filtered by default. The idea was to avoid people doing: $ whois -h whois.ripe.net 1.2.3.4 | grep @ And e-mailing a bunch of useless addresses. We include the comment about -B because this was the first time that the default output of the Whois server was changed to modify the contents of objects. I thought it was very important that people be able to know how to get the original, unmodified objects. A few data points: Date Total queries -B queries Total IP's -B IP's 2005-10-23 2139305 58973 2.8% 45069 1143 2.5% 2005-10-24 2237340 72880 3.3% 51970 1346 2.6% 2005-10-25 2569724 170948 6.7% 49852 1521 3.1% 2005-10-26 2562303 98482 3.8% 52478 1526 2.9% A relatively small percentage of queries actually uses the -B flag, and these queries come from a relatively small percentage of IP addresses. I also looked at the counts of objects returned, and found them to be roughly similar. (The number "-B" queries is actually an overcount, because I just looked for "B" anywhere in the query string, but a quick look shows that almost all occurrences of "B" are for the flag. The number of IP's is an undercount, because we get a lot of queries from www.ripe.net, and I didn't convert these to the original client IP address. This is for both the total and the -B.) The message that I take from this is that when you put data in the database, you can assume that most users will get the default output. -- Shane -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/db-wg/attachments/20051027/86a5e2c5/attachment.html>
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