[LINK] unlawful interception of internet traffic?

[Adam Todd]

At 09:45 AM 8/12/2006, Craig Sanders wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:22:13AM +1100, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> > Craig Sanders wrote:
> > >they've diverted the traffic by providing a false address.
> >
> > I might be barking up the wrong tree.
> >
> > But this could be the problem.
> >
> > I found, quite by accident, that my old ISP hadn't updated their DNS
> > and so, their customers couldn't send me emails. A friend said emails
> > to me kept bouncing. 12 months after I had switched. She was puzzled
> > as she said it was the same mail address she used previously and the
> > same one everyone else was using. She could see my website ok.
>
>no, this is not what is happening.

My God.  THis is so wasteful of everyones time and effort.

Here is a (l)user who is inside a network environment claiming that 
something is happening in the outside environment but providing nothing for 
anyone with any technical expertise on an external network to verify any of 
the claims.

This is PURE defamation and total arrogance.

Craig stop wasting peoples times with hypothetical "my network is broken" 
threads and replies unless you are prepared to publish the domain name that 
is apparently broken, the IP addresses of your name servers, the ip 
addresses of the alleged intercepting name servers and any other details 
that us Linkers with more knowledge and experience than you can actually do 
some tests OUTSIDE your toy network with so much interception and filter 
crap on it I'm not surprised you can't connect to the rest of the world.

Craig, Put up or SHUT THE * UP.

I'm not even going to comment on "I've been a Sys Admin in the ISP industry 
since the 1990's" my god, the number of ISP admins that are unemployed or 
out of business from that era is no surprise.



>I am not using their DNS server. i am using my own, which is NOT
>configured to use theirs as a forwarder. there is no way that my server
>could be getting responses from their nameserver UNLESS they are
>intercepting DNS requests for the correct name-server and diverting
>it to their own.
>
>in any case, the domain being intercepted was NEVER, at any time,
>hosted by the ISP doing the interception. there is no legitimate reason
>(not even the semi-legitimate reason of slackness or incompetence) for
>their nameserver to be claiming to be authoritative for the domain in
>question.  this could only be a deliberate malicious act.
>
> > It took quite a bit of work to convince them of the problem (as I was
> > no longer a customer - you can guess why!) and even more to guide them
> > through fixing it.
>
>i've been a system admin in the ISP industry since the early 90s. i've
>seen what you describe several times from the other side. i know how to
>recognise it and how to diagnose it.
>
>some ISPs are just slack and don't update their DNS when they should.
>this is partly because many (most?) ISPs are scared of DNS because they
>think it's difficult.
>
>rarely, some ISPs deliberately hold on to (ex-)? customers' domains in
>order to either a) encourage them to come back or b) punish them for
>leaving. they know who they are. most in the industry know who they
>are too. one large ISP in particular used to do this....it was very
>difficult (often impossible) to get them to remove domains from their
>name-servers.
>
>in either scenario, it is a real PITA for everyone concerned, and
>usually the customer simply can not understand what is going on and has
>no idea who to believe (their new ISP or their old ISP).
>
>
>OTOH, some customers are slack and don't bother to inform their (ex-)
>ISP that they have got a new service provider.  ISPs aren't mind
>readers, they can't magically know that their customer no longer needs
>the DNS hosting service.  THIS scenario of customer slackness is far
>more common than the ISP incompetence or ISP malice scenarios. this
>could be seen as a good thing or a sad thing, depending on how you look
>at it :)
>
>
>
>craig
>
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>craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)
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