Yes, you right. "I do not" understand the way Content Inspection works.

Here is the scenario; the Gateways have our Internal DNS defined not the
any external DNS (such our ISP). I will follow your suggestion about the
TCPDUMP.

If I understand you correctly, Content Inspection re-execute the HTTP
session all over again, even after been thru our ISA proxy server!

Now ... that is starting to make a lot of sense to me.

Thanks again for clarifying this for me...


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Previtera, Sal wrote:
| Thanks Hugo,
|
| But DNS is not the issue....because as soon as we turn Content
| Inspection OFF....everything works fine....and we are still use the
same
| DNS servers.
| So we can put that idea on the side for now.

I think you do not understand the way content inspection works. With
content inspection the HTTP session effectively ends on the firewall and
the firewall is the client for each and every remote webserver. Think of
it as a hidden proxy.

Your suggestion that switching off content inspection did not show the
issues is to me a clear indication you MUST check DNS very, very
carefully. It is the number 1 suspect.

It would be unwise to open a ticket untill you verified the correct
working of your DNS servers for this usage. A simple tcpdump on DNS
traffic (UDP + TCP) will tell you a lot.

I have seen this time and again with Check Point for many years. It is
also why I became an advocate against the usage of CVP in the days of
version 3.0b and 4.0

Hugo.

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