[176486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Transparent hijacking of SMTP submission...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Mon Dec 1 08:26:22 2014
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From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
"William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>, Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:25:02 +0000
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On 11/29/14, 3:17 PM, "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>PS: I know enough technical people at Comcast that I would be
>extremely surprised if it were Comcast doing this. There's plenty not to
>like about the corporation, but the technical staff are quite competent.
Thanks, John! I can tell folks here unequivocally that (1) the recent
press article on STARTTLS re-writing did *not* involve Comcast and (2)
Comcast does not engage in the claimed practice. In fact, we=B9re supporter=
s
and early deployers of STARTTLS on our own mail service.
I do not know how to explain the issue reported on this list. Absent a
packet capture it is impossible for me to analyze this further. If
anything, I could only imagine it was a misconfiguration someplace, but I
have no idea where or in what network element that=B9d even be possible. I=
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happy to work with anyone that has more info to try to troubleshoot this.
- Jason Livingood
Comcast
