[18069] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roeland M.J. Meyer)
Fri Jun 26 02:02:39 1998
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:37:32 -0700
To: Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net>
From: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980625160210.723l-100000@tarkin.fdt.net>
At 04:11 PM 6/25/98 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
>Has anyone else noticed Digex playing with transparent proxying on their
>backbone? We have one of our T1's through them, and found that all web
>traffic going out our Digex connection goes through a proxy. We've got
>customers with web sites that are broken now because they can't
>communicate with things like Cybercash, because their outgoing http
>requests are hijacked and sent through a Digex web cache.
>
>Digex wants us to register each web server out on the rest of the
>internet that hosts from our network need to talk directly to. This looks
>like the beginning of a big PITA.
Sounds more like time to change Internet vendors. You've now told me whom I
DON'T want to do business with. Yeah, I know renumbering's a bitch. I just
went through it myself.
>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.
Yeah, it tells you when to change vendors.
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