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... address of the party whose number you
are seeking, and waiting for the operator to search his database. It
is additionally available by looking in a phone book published yearly
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The whois utility, which is available on a wide of variety of
systems, works by querying a centralized database maintained at the
DDN NIC, which was for many years located at SRI International in
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... NIC, which was for many years located at SRI International in
Menlo Park, California, and is now located at GSI. This database
contains a large amount of information which primarily deals with
people and equipment which is used to build the Internet ...
... GSI) has been able to collect the information in the WHOIS
database as part of its role as the Network Information Center for
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The WHOIS database is large enough and comprehensive enough to
exhibit many of the flaws of a large centralized database: a) As the
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... WHOIS database is large enough and comprehensive enough to
exhibit many of the flaws of a large centralized database: a) As the
database is maintained on one machine, a processor ...
... exhibit many of the flaws of a large centralized database: a) As the
database is maintained on one machine, a processor bottleneck forces
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... slow response during times of peak querying activity, even if many of
these queries are unrelated, b) as the database is maintained on one
machine, a storage bottleneck forces the database ...
... database is maintained on one
machine, a storage bottleneck forces the database administrators to
severely limit the amount of information which can be kept on each
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... administrators to
severely limit the amount of information which can be kept on each
entry in the database, c) all changes to the database have to be
mailed to a "hostmaster" and then physically reentered into the
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... severely limit the amount of information which can be kept on each
entry in the database, c) all changes to the database have to be
mailed to a "hostmaster" and then physically reentered into the
database ...
... database have to be
mailed to a "hostmaster" and then physically reentered into the
database, increasing both the turnaround time and the likelihood for
a mistake in transcription.
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... digits, dashes, parenthesis, and a plus sign. The attribute syntax
for the title attribute would also be CaseIgnoreString. A good
analogy in database terms for what we've seen so far might be to
think of a Directory entry as a database record, an attribute as a
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... analogy in database terms for what we've seen so far might be to
think of a Directory entry as a database record, an attribute as a
field in that record, and an attribute syntax as a field type
(decimal number, string) for a field in a record ...
... designed to solve everyone's needs for all time to come. X.500 is not
a general purpose database, nor is it a Data Base Management System
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... search might have to perform a number of small searches. This was
implemented because an organization might want to make it hard to
"troll" for the organization's entire database.
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