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?