While we are on the subject of named...

[Vu Pham]

> I was so hoping that the problem would not be a firewall in 
> Singapore. I do know for a fact that traffic into and out of 
> Singapore goes through many, many firewalls at the ISP end, 
> and sometimes they get misconfigured, and the DNS also 
> frequently gets misconfigured (which is why I run a local 
> caching service on my notebook), but I was so hoping that 
> this was not the problem, because there is absolutely nothing 
> I can do about it.

Sorry for the off-topic but I cannot help writing this. About 6,7 years ago
there were very few people using and we used telephoned line to access to
the ISP only for emails ( no internet, and the ISP several times a day
connects to some foreign gateways to send/recevie emails ). Telephone was
rare and expensive, so there were services called "telephone for rent" (
similar to public telephone stations here, but they were on private houses
).

One person came to that phone service and connected her notebook to get
emails and asked the owner how much she had to pay. Thing should be normal
until the guest smiled and said that she was happy to get several emails
from Australia or US. Then, the phone owner shouted "What, you used it for
international calls ? Hey, you should pay much more". This woman tried to
explain that she used "local phone for international emails". They finally
settled their argue in a police station. And then the problem became worse
for the notebook woman when she was asked if she had permission to use "such
a foreign service". The story really did not end here but it became more
political.


Vu