DNS Question (from a novice)

[Mathew Plumb]

Thanks for the responses guys. I'm still a little baffled by this though
<duh>.

If I browse from the proxy machine it seems just fine and speedy. One thing
I did discover yesterday was that from a different office the tracert to the
proxy server doesn't return the name of the server just the TCP/IP address.
Whereas from my office both the name & address were returned on the final
hop.

BTW. Michael what's a publically available PTR record?

Thanks again.

Matthew

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>