Rate-Limiting

Rate Limit - WHOIS

The RADb WHOIS-like service is the authoritative public interface to The Routing Assets Database. The WHOIS service includes objects sourced in RADb along with objects of each IRR that is mirrored by RADb. WHOIS is intended primarily for human consumption and low traffic programmatic usage.

The RADb WHOIS service is rate-limited as follows:

• 4 concurrent connections from a single IP (5th connection rejected via TCP reset)

• 3.3 sessions/second from a single IP or 200 or less Session rate less over the last 60 seconds (connections after this session rate is achieved are rejected via TCP reset)

Often you will receive a messages that states Connection Reset by Peer. This can not be changed or whitelisted for any reason.

Rate Limit - Login / API

Rate limiting for the Login and API is usually triggered when the user has 5 POST requests to authorize.radb.net in 5 minutes = 1hr block Cloudflare will remove the rate-limiting after 1 hour, but continued failed login attempts will increase the rate-limiting exponentially. In other words, If you keep trying the failed login, then could be locked out for up to 24 hours.