[98171] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Dambier)
Wed Jul 25 12:53:04 2007
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:13:37 +0200
From: Peter Dambier <peter@peter-dambier.de>
Reply-To: peter@peter-dambier.de
To: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <46A73214.5020803@ahnberg.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Mattias Ahnberg wrote:
> Peter Dambier wrote:
>
>> The problem is, you dont know what is behind that probably NATted ip
>> address. Probably you have 3 unix machines running smtp and uucp
>> and a single infected windows box and maybe some VoIPs and ...
>
>
> This is why I spoke of merely intercepting web traffic to inform,
> to not interrupt other services that may use the same link. I am
> in the same situation myself, sharing lots of stuff via the same
> fiber to my house. I even have TV through it.
>
> So I actually thought of that.
You are right. Intercepting is mostly harmless.
>
> And an ISP probably knows a bit more about their customer base
> than what we do, so this idea would ofcourse have to adapt to
> that. But as said, its a complicated matter and probably not a
> good idea either way before we know who is supposed to do what
> and for whom.
Having been a costumer to some ISPs and communicating with
others, I dont agree. At least concerning email they dont
have a clue about their costumers and there are others
things like uucp, VoIP and p2p or IPv6 tunnels they dont
have either.
Kind regards
Peter and Karin
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