On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 8:02 AM, Robert Ridge <rri...@provo.utah.gov> wrote: > It seems to me that this kind of behavior should be illegal.
That's the dumbest thing I've heard so far today. (Don't feel TOO bad - this is also the first email I read today.) Aside from the obvious problems of making this, and only this, illegal - which is difficult if not impossible - you're also saying that we should stomp on the ability of a network owner to provide "value added" services to their customers. To you and I, the value added in this specific instance is less than zero, but it's possible that "this kind of behavior" (catching non-existent DNS requests and handling them intelligently) might in the future be used in a way that does benefit customers. Unless, of course, it's illegal. On the other hand, lying to customers about what you're doing with their traffic (even if it was a simple misunderstanding on the part of a level 1 techie) might be worth thinking about a little more. -Dan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
