DNS Question (from a novice)

[John Tan]

Michael is right. Actually you can also try to surf from the proxy server 
itself. Does  that work ?


>From: Michael Voight <mvoight at cisco.com>
>To: Mathew Plumb <matthew.plumb at virgin.net>
>CC: comp-protocols-dns-bind at moderators.isc.org
>Subject: Re: DNS Question (from a novice)
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 12:41:13 -0700
>
>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>
>


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