On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Saints Support wrote:

> I mean I know we all complained about the security of the .au DB and yes
> I had my fair share of moans.
> 
> But when it comes down to it. Using a Shared Proxy server like telstra's
> IP Address '165.228.129.11' has been blacklisted. This will be reset in
> 1 hour. 
>  
> 
> And getting to make like 2 querries on the whois for my own domains is
> just stupid. 
> 
> I have to go through and configure my office exuipment not to use that
> proxy or to wait the one hour and try again.
[snip]

Wouldn't using a "real" whois client (i.e. one that talks whois protocol,
not via http) get straight around this?

HTH,
Neale.