[ On Sun, November 22, 1998 at 00:31:41 (-0500), Ken Hornstein wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: SOLVED! The cause of puzzling TCP (eg. WHOIS) connection failures with some InterNIC.net hosts 
>
> Seriously, I've talked to a lot of firewall administrators, at
> commercial sites, educational sites, three letter government agencies
> (even ones that don't exist), and there has been one _unvarying_
> theme.  They universally do not understand the protocols they are
> filtering.  If they _did_ understand these protocols, then they
> wouldn't be firewall administrators.

(either that or they'd administer their firewalls with wire cutters)

Unfortunately I think your last sentence is the biggest understatement
in all this thread.

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