Re: dns outbound

[wyllys () reston wcom net]

> > > Why the heck would clients need external access to DNS servers? Barring the
> > > occasional network management application, there should be no reason a client
> > > needs direct access to a DNS server (that I can think of). 
> >
> >
> > There are plenty of reasons why internal machines need to resolve
> > external names.  
>
>
>   ... and you have apparently assumed that they cannot do this without the 
> requested direct access, despite a thread full of posts from knowledgable 
> people explaining that this assumption is not true of properly-configured 
> networks.

No, I just misunderstood the question.  I thought the
original poster was questioning the need for external DNS resolution,
not the need for direct access to external servers, my mistake.  I think 
others have also confused the two issues as well.   

-wyllys