Re: dns outbound

[davidg () genmagic com (David Gillett)]

On 18 May 99, at 8:36, wyllys () reston wcom net wrote:

> On 16 May, Robert Graham wrote:
> > 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.


David G