What makes a good drop catching script?

[A-Wing]

5 hops here

From an ADSL line?! That's impressive

 

[Ellis]

Too right it is - I'm over 30 hops from home and I'm only a few meters away from a major exchange

 

[A-Wing]

Too right it is - I'm over 30 hops from home and I'm only a few meters away from a major exchange

Bloody hell, are you in Australia or just you ISP?!

 

[tifosi]

That's not worked for me for months now - I always used to get a reponse - either from my server or my home pc - now it doesn't respond at all.

wierd!

They moved the servers I think and the new firewall probably blocks it. It's a valid and correct security measure.

S

 

[tifosi]

Scripting is only a small part of what makes a good "dropcatcher" tatics also play a large part.

So long as the script you write does everything you need as fast as possible then you'll be fine.

Don't be suprised if you re-write/modify it many times before you're happy.

Yep, my timing module is now bigger than my original drop script. Accuracy down to 0.5ms.

S

 

[aquanuke]

I dont think what coding language makes that big a difference, you need a fast script and good tactics. I dont have the fastest script or the best tactics.. but I just got very very lucky today

Think Id better go lie down my best catch to date :-D

 

[jonno]

nice one, that's one wicked catch!

 

[aqls]

If it's not on deleting then it's not really fair.

Please put it back and we can all have a go with our speculatives!

-aqls-

 

[SF]

Think Id better go lie down my best catch to date :-D

What did you pick up mate??

 

[retired_member16]

5 hops here

If you access via above.net

You need;

1 x router
1 x IPS GW
1 x Peering point

You then have
You have2 x above hops
And then 1 x Nominet

So 6 appears to be the bare minimum I would think.

 

[aquanuke]

What did you pick up mate??

I think jonno gave it away

http://www.wicked.co.uk

 

[aqls]

nice

-aqls-

 

[Jeewhizz]

My bad...

Hop 6 appears to be the DAC

 

[SF]

I think jonno gave it away

http://www.wicked.co.uk

No way, what a superb name! well done mate.

 

[A-Wing]

I think jonno gave it away

http://www.wicked.co.uk

Wicked Wicked jungle is masif!!

Congrats. The namedrive theme suits it

 

[Slater]

Wicked.co.uk - Nice catch

Wonder how many were watching that one

Mark

 

[SF]

My mate has a smallish porn company called Wicked Promotions, hes creaming himself over that catch right now!

 

[SF]

Its a well deserved catch in my eyes, the way the prenoms having been comming out is nearly on a four week basis so to add one just after the last one is an insane bet which has paid off!

Well done again!

 

[aquanuke]

As a new member of nominet and forum lurker here for a while I am now planning to write my own drop catching script for uk domains.

Just for background, I plan to use php (as it is the scripting language I am most comfortable with, and should cope with this task well) on a P4 server with 2 gig ram. I have done some speed tests and it appears to be easily fast enough for the number of queries that can be performed with the DAC.

I am keen to include as many worthwhile features as I am capable of writing and I have listed some of my ideas, but I am keen to see what features you use and couldn't do without, or wish you had.

My list:

• A variable 'throttle' which can vary the queries per second to the DAC (from say 1 per second through to 16 per second, which is close to the maximum allowed over a minute).

• A way to prioritise domains, so a domain identified with a higher percieved value can get a greater share of the DAC requests over a 'normal' domain.

• If a domain is either won or lost, it is automatically removed from the list so DAC request won't be wasted.

• A pre-nom alarm (although I am not sure what this looks like at the moment). Perhaps if the script detects a pre-nom is either won or lost, all requests switch to pre-noms only and the throttle is set to maximum automatically. (This assumes that a whole chunk of pre-noms will drop on the same day)

I am not after trade secrets (although if you want to share...), and all thoughts, ideas and feedback on what makes a good drop catching script is appreciated.

My script does all the above. Though I dont think you need that much RAM even if you read a db of names into memory to eliminate hard disk access you would'nt need anywhere near that much ram. End of the day the whole process is rather simple and non demanding.. of course if you have money to burn then quad xeons, fat matched dual ddr and scsi raid are quite tempting

Me ive got a knackered old Cellery box

You might wanna add SMS alerts try this...

http://www.sephiroth.it/tutorials/flashPHP/sms/

 

[aquanuke]

My mate has a smallish porn company called Wicked Promotions, hes creaming himself over that catch right now!

I think thats more detail then we need to know Sean