Ask HN: Is sending a lot of requests but respecting rate limits DOSing?

[SpyCoder77]

I made a tool that finds Gimkit game codes by requesting the check code endpoint with a random 6 digit integer on loop until it got a valid code or it got rate limited. If it stops when it gets rate limited, is it DOS?

[gus_massa]

I'm not sure of the definition, but I'd not be surprised if your IP gets banned.