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Re: Proxy advantage


From: "Marcus J. Ranum" <mjr () ranum com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:21:42 -0400

Paul D. Robertson wrote:
I've always railed against DNS tunneling.  It seems to be rearing its ugly head again.  Today with all the in-band HTTP 
attacks, it once again seems the major advantage of a proxy server is not having to pass DNS down to the client.  Should 
this be a best practice?

Hasn't it always?

mjr.

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Marcus J. Ranum         CSO, Tenable Network Security, Inc.
                        http://www.tenable.com

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