[97982] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Jul 23 10:32:31 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070722232852.GL85010@burnout.tpb.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:21:56 -0500
To: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jul 22, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>> if you are a cox customer you might want to have a reasoned
>> discussion with them and find out more details and whether you can
>> reach a resolution. if they dont play ball tho you ultimately
>> would have to vote with your $$ and switch..
> This is a ridiculous argument as in many places there is only one
> game in town for affordable high speed internet for end users.
Yes, but at least the incumbents have their cash cows protected (who
me? cynical?)
However, you don't have to switch providers to run your own caching
server. Unless Cox is intercepting all DNS queries (instead of just
mucking about with the caching servers they operate), running your
own caching server will likely solve the problem.
Rgds,
-drc
