On Thu, 17 Jul 2014 04:14:19 -0400 Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 2014-07-16 19:28 (GMT-0700) jdebert composed:
Nothing in the terms prohibit it. Seems to come under the catch-all of their right to make improvements, etc. Censorship also comes under that umbrella, apparently. Support is so obstinately clueless that getting bumped to second level has been so far impossible. It's all my fault that their DNS is a problem, apparently.
They like to call it "transparent DNS proxy" but it's clearly hijacking DNS and providing sometimes bogus responses, or fails to allow valid responses through. Also never allows DNSSEC validation. That's not very transparent.
I sometimes wonder if Earthlink does some of this since quite some time. Quite some time back I stopped seeing Gecko's standard 404 page, instead getting any of several annoying mousetype pages that look like the pages resulting from expired domain registrations. That prompted me to include some entries in /etc/hosts as a way to get Gecko's simple and perfectly adequate 404 pages back:
0.0.0.0 earthlink-help.com 0.0.0.0 www.earthlink-help.com 0.0.0.0 search1.earthlinkfinder.net 0.0.0.0 www.website-unavailable.com
There's that and I've also stopped routing to the net that hosts sprint's ad server as well for additional assurance. About to start working on redirecting ip's from their bogus DNS responses and their 302 redirects to my own server with custom error page to tell me when sprint pulls these stunts.
Does this Earthlink behavior amount to any portion of this Sprint hijacking activity?
Is there overlap between the Sprint hijacking and DMARC activity? Since 7-8 months ago I've been unable to achieve email success in either direction between this email account and yahoo.com addresses, among a few others.
It's possible, I suppose but I haven't actually noticed it. Still, with the aggressive push to make ISP's track and monitor user activity, what major ISP would not do it? Since I use ssh tunnel to mail provider, it's not affected by sprint dns at all. jd -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org