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RE: Incease in latency to TLD servers

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Madley)
Thu Jan 25 16:56:05 2001

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From: Scott Madley <scott.madley@cbeyond.net>
To: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>,
	Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 16:50:50 -0500
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As I try and normally stay away from the fluff that is Slashdot.  I remember
reading an article there some months ago about this.  Further searching
leads me to what you where talking about.  Apparently it actually works.  

http://slashdot.org/articles/00/09/10/2230242.shtml

-Scott 

-----Original Message-----
From: M. David Leonard [mailto:mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:35 PM
To: Sean Donelan
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Incease in latency to TLD servers



Sean-

	Did I have a bad dream or wasn't someone trying to exploit some 
sort of tunneling via DNS connections to avoid firewalls blocking napster 
traffic?  If I'm 'way off in left field just ignore me......



					David Leonard
					ShaysNet



On 25 Jan 2001, Sean Donelan wrote:

> 
> The Matrix (http://average.miq.net/Daily/markMM.html) is showing a
> remarkable rise in latency to many DNS servers.  Has someone found
> a nifty new use for DNS servers?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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