DNS Question (from a novice)

[Michael Voight]

If you go through a proxy, then the proxy is doing the lookup.
Additionally, there may be a delay if the proxy doesn't have a pubically
reachable PTR record. or.. maybe your proxy is busy.

What happens if you do queries on the proxy?

Michael Voight
CSE, Cisco TAC

Mathew Plumb wrote:
> 
> Apologies for the possible vagueness of this question but I'm a complete
> novice to DNS and have been thrown in at the deep end a little.
> 
> Here's the deal :-
> 
> I'm running Netscape Navigator 4.08 (over a corporate NetWare 4.11
> LAN/WAN) via a WEBsweeper proxy server through a Cyberguard firewall out
> to the Internet. Now if I set the browser to make a direct connection to
> the 'Net everything is just fine but if I set it to go through the proxy
> server it takes for ever and a day to respond. More often than not it
> times out.
> 
> However if I go to a MS-Dos prompt and run a tracert to the proxy server
> and then go back to the browser everything is fine. This is the only
> clue I can come up with and it works everytime.
> 
> Any ideas? Anyone? Please?
> 
> Regards
> 
> Matthew
> 
> ps. Hope I don't sound too desperate <g>