[18059] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Jun 25 19:58:54 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:49:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <19980625182824.45700@mcs.net>
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
> > I wouldn't have a problem with Digex setting up some web caches and
> > encouraging customers to setup their own caches and have them talk to the
> > Digex ones via ICP...but caching everything without our knowledge/consent
> > stinks.
>
> Sigh...... why did I know this kind of crap (hijacking connections) was
> going to start. Grrr.....
It's a good thing we got our own CIDR block when renumbering out of uunet
space. If Digex doesn't reconsider this new policy, I'll be looking for
quotes on non-proxied transit (T1 or Frame T1) in Gainesville, FL.
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