Nominet DAC commands

stevie · Dec 31, 2005

I noticed on the Nom website that the dac supports a "usage" command which returns information on the number of queries that you have made.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/dac/instruct/

I get usage,E when I process the request... is the usage command a fairly new feature??
doe's it work for anyone else??

cheers steve

aquanuke · Dec 31, 2005

Something amiss I think. If I do usage I get usage,E but if I do exit I also get exit,E

First time Ive seen that page though it might have been there before.

eetc · Dec 31, 2005

I'm getting:

,I

followed by three carriage returns. I am guessing that this is broken or the instruction is wrong. In fact if I send #eric I get exactly the same response.

Thanks for posting this chaps as I was going to spend some time implementing this over the weekend so you have saved me some head scratching.

Chris

aquanuke · Jan 1, 2006

Its working now.

aquanuke · Jan 1, 2006

Still its useless as how can you use this without stopping your script ??

eetc · Jan 1, 2006

I am still getting the same response so I'll need to dig a little deeper...

In answer to the second question though, I indend making a usage request perhaps once every 30 mins or so and use the result to automatically adjust the delay between requests to keep me just under the limit. It will be part of the script.

Chris

Jay Daley · Jan 4, 2006

stevie said:
I noticed on the Nom website that the dac supports a "usage" command which returns information on the number of queries that you have made.
http://www.nominet.org.uk/other/dac/instruct/

I get usage,E when I process the request... is the usage command a fairly new feature??
doe's it work for anyone else??

cheers steve

Are you putting the # in front of the command? It should be

#usage<CR><LF>