On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:14:47PM -0500, John Sorres wrote:
> Finally, I'm not sure why you wouldn't want to connect such a network to 
> the Internet, at least in a limited fashion. Surely such workers would want 
> to communicate with outside authorities, agencies, etc; it might be useful 
> for them to have google to search, in case they need quick information 
> about a specific topic; etc.

I strongly suspect that the implication of that clause was "We're assuming
that the Internet is unreachable in the proposed context."  Obviously, you
want it if you can get it... but one needs to be careful about things like
trapping RFC1918 reverse DNS at the edge, to avoid problems caused by
intermittent and/or non-existent access to the Internet.

Cheers,
-- jra
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