[166630] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Rubenstein)
Fri Nov 1 21:48:53 2013
From: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, Mark Andrews
<marka@isc.org>
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 21:48:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: <527459C4.5000308@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> >> Not necessarily. When the CPE is configured through DHCP (or PPP?),
> >> the ISP can send the secret.
> >
> > Which can be seen, in many cases, by other parties
>=20
> Who can see the packets sent from the local ISP to the CPE directly
> connected to the ISP?
The NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS. Or, the ISP, the ISP's employees, contractors, sub-=
contractors. Or the phone company handling the PPPOE, L2TP, or whatever els=
e. Or the WiFi sniffer on the street outside.
