Fwd: Re: DNS

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

----- Forwarded message from Brian Martinez <martinez_brain@hotmail.com> -----
    Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:34:08 -0600
    From: Brian Martinez <martinez_brain@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: Brian Martinez <martinez_brain@hotmail.com>
 Subject: Re: DNS
      To: chuck@horde.org

Chuck,

Any suggestions?


>From: Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck@horde.org>
>To: Brian Martinez <martinez_brain@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: DNS
>Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:59:24 -0500
>
>Quoting Brian Martinez <martinez_brain@hotmail.com>:
>
> > Excellent! You were correct regarding the DNS issue.  I discussed the
> > situation with our Network Admin and discovered that our firewall (as
>most
> > firewalls) do not allow for DNS resolution requests to pass from
>internal
> > LAN to external Internet.  Thus, the DNS resolvers on our internal LAN
>do
> > not resolve external addresses.  Additionally, the firewall doesn't
>allow
> > the use of IP addresses in place of the DNS name...which I found odd,
>but
> > true.  All DNS requests for external addresses must utilize the http
>proxy.
> > Applications such as "Slashapp", which is Slashdots news feed applet is
>an
> > example.  If I configure wget to utilize the proxy should the
>application
> > start working?  I will test and let you know.
>
>Jonah doesn't use wget.
>
>-chuck
>
>--
>Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
>"What was and what may be, lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in
>the
>arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now." - Ursula K. Le Guin




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-chuck

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Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
"What was and what may be, lie, like children whose faces we cannot see, in the
arms of silence. All we ever have is here, now." - Ursula K. Le Guin