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  From: Richard Russell <richard@yellowgoanna.com>
  To  : Mark Newton <newton@atdot.dotat.org>
  Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:56:58 +0930

Re: Apache reverse proxy -- why does this even work?

Mark Newton writes:
<snip> 

> No it won't, it'll use whatever nameserver resolv.conf tells it to use.
> And he's already said that's his ISP's nameserver. 
> 
> No idea why it works.

Hmmm.... hurrah! 

> 
> HOWEVER!  .int is a bad choice for an internal domain name, because
> it's actually an official real-life domain.  It'd be a bit like using
> .com as your internal domain :-) 
> 
> .int is for "international" organizations, such as www.un.int.  

Yeah -- it's a legacy thing... 

rr 

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