cant ping external website

[Derek Broughton]

Mark Haney wrote:

> NoOp wrote:
> 
>>> With that said, I still think it's silly to do that.  Back in the day
>>> (like '93/4) that was considered taboo.  So I don't do it.
>> 
>> Cite please.
> 
> Cite what?  Do I need to cite anything?  I'm not even sure I could pull
> up the list discussion I was on at the time.

Well, yeah.  If you're telling people that something that is rock-solid
standard on their system is a bad idea, it makes sense to be able to
explain _why_ it's a bad idea.  I just can't imagine any reason it could
_ever_ have been a problem

>> This has been the standard with debian (upon which Ubuntu is based) for
>> some time. See:
>> 
>> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-gateway.en.html#s-net-dns
> 
> 
> Uh, I run Debian Sarge on 2 DNS servers and they are not setup that way.
>     So, reference manual might say it, but the Debian boxes I manage
> (and were here when I got here) do not have that setup.

Server configurations would hardly be likely to need it, would they?
-- 
derek