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Re: icq



Hi, ishaybas!

On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 04:59:37PM +0200, you wrote the following:

> Some firewalls (checkpoint) allow you to block by dns domain name.
> you just block all traffic to .icq.com, .mirabilis.com, end of story.

Does this mean that for every packet that goes through the firewall,
it runs a DNS reverse lookup to find the hostname of the destination?
I just wonder what kind of performance this firewall delivers.

Sounds very strange to me.


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