[Chapter-delegates] Canadian ISP Rogers violates net neutrality by hijacking failed DNS lookups

[Gilles Massen]

Alejandro, Patrick, et al,

There are more and more ISPs that tweak their DNS servers to return an IP 
address when they should return that a name does not exist. Rogers is only 
the last on a growing list. 

Personally, I'd never accept that behaviour from my ISP, I'd either change or 
work around it (with services like OpenDNS, where you can at least opt-out 
from such an 'enhanced user experience'). 

Verisign was the same idea on another level, and you could not easily work 
around it, so I'm quite happy that that's gone.

But let's face it: net neutrality is slowly disappearing...be it by changing 
the content of DNS replies, or by treating P2P traffic differently. To 
many 'optimisations' do simply that: manipulate what's on the wire.

Best,
Gilles




On Monday 21 July 2008 01:54, Alejandro Pisanty wrote:
> Patrick,
>
> reminds me of the spat on wildcards with Verisign some years ago. Quoting
> it could be a good precedent Rogers clients may want to use. Rogers may
> not want to get into a similar mess.
>
> Yours,
>
> Alejandro Pisanty
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> On Sun, 20 Jul 2008, Patrick Vande Walle wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:57:11 +0200
> > From: Patrick Vande Walle <patrick at vande-walle.eu>
> > To: isoc Chapter Delegates <chapter-delegates at elists.isoc.org>,
> >     ISOC Extended Board <isoc-ext-board at elists.isoc.org>
> > Subject: [Isoc-ext-board] Canadian ISP Rogers violates net neutrality by
> >     hijacking failed DNS lookups
> >
> > http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2689/206/
> >
> > In what appears to be a violation of Net Neutrality by Rogers Cable,
> > Digital Home readers are reporting that Rogers High Speed Internet
> > service has begun redirecting customers "Server not found pages" to
> > webpages laden with Rogers advertising.
> >
> > See original link for more details and screenshots.
> >
> > --
> > Patrick Vande Walle