----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren Bailey" <[email protected]>
> I neglected to say one additional thing which I think may be worth reading > before replying. I have always held the opinion that internet traffic > isn't internet traffic until it hits the Internet, which I defined as > two or more autonomous systems functioning on their own but possessing the > ability to relay information between the two. I'm pretty sure that if > you have a single network, you couldn't label it "inter" unless "inter" > was between yourself - and then you have a network.. Not an internetwork. I suspect that, to a first approximation, "traffic which passes through the edge of at least one AS" is probably what most people think of as 'Internet' traffic. As for your DNS question: the interior query isn't, per-se, but the repeated one from your resolver/proxy *is*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
