[166649] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sat Nov 2 06:53:14 2013
To: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 02 Nov 2013 16:19:22 +0900."
<5274A77A.8090403@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 21:51:33 +1100
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <5274A77A.8090403@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, Masataka Ohta writes:
> Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> >> Who can see the packets sent from the local ISP to the CPE
> >> directly connected to the ISP?
> >
> > The dhcpd traffic coming in over the cable modem and you want to
> > send secrets in the clear over a channel like this.
>
> Over the cable modem?
Yes.
> The cable modem is the CPE, which accept the DHCP packet to it.
A cable modem both accepts DHCP packets (for management of the
modem) and passes DHCP packets through to the customer device.
> Masataka Ohta
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