Re: EPP over UDP for Domain Availability Checking?

Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:

>I just spent a few minutes writing client and server software in perl to
>send and receive EPP <check> commands and responses.  It's very doable.
>Does anyone think that they might find it useful to have a documented way to
>use EPP over UDP for domain availability checking?
>
>I'm thinking that registries might find it useful to provide a UDP service
>for high-volume, no-session-required domain checking.  People that want only
>availability information might find a UDP-based client more useful than
>whois.
>
>-Scott-
>  
>
Sure, but this does also simplify DoS attacks against registries that 
have to perform availability checks using their SQL backend. But it 
cannot hurt to have such a spec handy, even if for internal purposes 
only :-)

Best regards,
-jens