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Subject: Re: allow "whois" requests outbound?
From: Adam Shostack <adam @ homeport . org>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 13:17:41 -0500 (EST)
To: heiser @ world . std . com (Bill Heiser)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199610081610 . AA28565 @ world . std . com> from "Bill Heiser" at Oct 8, 96 12:10:09 pm

Bill Heiser wrote:

| Would it be safe to allow outbound "whois" requests (tcp/43) from
| an internal network to the Internet via a packet-filtering style
| firewall such as Firewall-1?  Are there any known "gotchas" to this
| particular service?

	Why not encourage people to use a web gateway to whois?  That
saves you from asking questions about the client software.

Adam

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