[dns-operations] Denying Whois DB by GeoIP

[Kaio Rafael]

Em quinta-feira, 8 de junho de 2017, Daniel Griggs <daniel at nzrs.net.nz>
escreveu:

> Hi Kaio,
>
> First off, we aren't specifically blocking Brazil. So sorry that you're
> seeing that.
>
> What we do, have is rate limiting to prevent abuse, or at least to
> discourage abuse. We have two different levels of enforcement to try and
> prevent contact detail harvesting from individuals and botnets. The first
> is a per IP address rate limit, the second is per country rate limiting
> (using geo-ip lookups). Its just unfortunate that recently our whois
> service has been hit pretty hard with queries originating from Brazil.
>
> There is a process which you can follow to get an exemption, so feel free
> to contact me offlist to organise that.
>

Thanks for the help


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> Daniel Griggs
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> On 9/06/2017, at 9:18 AM, Kaio Rafael <kaiorafael at dcc.ufam.edu.br
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','kaiorafael at dcc.ufam.edu.br');>> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have been investigating Fast-Flux service for a while, and sometimes I
> need to retrieve WHOIS data from different TLDs.
>
> Today, I was looking for .CO.NZ <http://co.nz/> data, however every query
> I sent, I got permission denied. I am not sure if this block is based on my
> IP current geolocation (Brazil), but when I ask from different locations
> such as US and UK, I can have this data.
>
> I tried different sources in Brazil, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, for
> instance.
>
> Is there any RFC or other documentation that says that a TLD (whois in
> this case) can deny requests based on IP Geolocation?
>
> Thanks
> --
> Kaio Rafael,
> PhD student.
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> Kaio Rafael,
> http://twitter.com/kaiux
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Kaio Rafael,
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