[187830] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: messing with DNS, was Thank you, Comcast.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Fri Feb 26 13:15:52 2016
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Date: 26 Feb 2016 18:03:56 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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>Every ISP I have felt with that messes with the DNS, has no valid opt-out
>other than using different DNS. The opt-out they use is a HTTP cookie,
>which only works for web browsers. It doesn't work for any other program.
T-W and I am fairly sure Comcast have per-customer opt-out from DNS
"enhancement". T-W's is at http://dnssearch.rr.com/prefs.php
I still don't use their DNS caches, but that's not the reason.
R's,
John