[114553] in North American Network Operators' Group
you're not interesting, was Re: another brick in the wall[ed garden]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu May 14 18:36:20 2009
Date: 14 May 2009 22:36:05 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1M4f2R-000Dmp-6k@valhalla.seastrom.com>
Cc: rs@seastrom.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Dear Sprint EVDO people,
>
>Your man-in-the-middle hijacking of UDP/53 DNS queries against
>nameservers that I choose to query from my laptop on Sprint EVDO is
>not appreciated. Even less appreciated is your complete blocking of
>TCP/53 DNS queries.
If I were an ISP, and I knew that approximately 99.9% of customer
queries to random name servers was malware doing fake site phishing or
misconfigured PCs that will work OK and avoid a support call if they
answer the DNS query, with 0.1% being old weenies like us, I'd do what
Sprint's doing, too.
If you're aware of a mechanical way for them to tell the difference,
we're all ears.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://www.johnlevine.com, ex-Mayor
"More Wiener schnitzel, please", said Tom, revealingly.
