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From: asp@UUNET.UU.NET (Andrew Partan)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: NetFind and its Internet load
Message-ID: <9105112005.AA04828@uunet.uu.net>
Date: 11 May 91 20:05:56 GMT
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> From: csn!xcaret  (Xcaret Research)
> Subject: NetFind and its Internet load

> .... NetFind queries the Domain Naming System to locate authoritative name
> server hosts for each of these domains. ....
> .... Each of these machines
> is then queried using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ....
> .... located machines are then probed using the
> "finger" protocol ....

I assume that you have thought about domains that are not on the
Internet & only have MX records; about nameservers that do not run SMTP
servers; about hosts that do not run finger; about firewalls & gateways
that do not permit some protocols or hosts to be reached?

We run a nameserver for 1000+ domains that are not on the Internet;
said nameserver does not run SMTP or finger.  We are a MX forwarder for
about 900+ domains.  I don't want my mail servers hit with more load -
at times every cycle counts.

	--asp@uunet.uu.net (Andrew Partan)