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Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox
From: Joe Greco <jgreco () ns sol net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:38:16 -0500 (CDT)
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 02:56:13PM -0700, Andrew Matthews wrote:It looks like cox is hijacking dns for irc servers.<snip>isn't there a law against hijacking dns? What can i do to persue this?no, its their network and they play by their rules.. the law would prevent them from inserting data into 3rd party servers or from masquerading as someone they are not or other marketing unfairness (such as serving their site in place of their competitors).
Kinda like masquerading as an IRC server that they are not. The customer may have actually expected to go to that IRC server, and if not, they are in fact masquerading as someone they are not.
if you are a cox customer you might want to have a reasoned discussion with them and find out more details and whether you can reach a resolution. if they dont play ball tho you ultimately would have to vote with your $$ and switch..
That's not too practical. We've pretty much given up on competition in the broadband markets here in the US. It might be interesting to talk to a competent Internet lawyer, however. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Current thread:
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox, (continued)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Joe Greco (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Chris L. Morrow (Jul 24)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Sean Donelan (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox David W. Hankins (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Joe Greco (Jul 23)
- RE: DNS Hijacking by Cox Raymond L. Corbin (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Joe Greco (Jul 23)
- RE: DNS Hijacking by Cox David Schwartz (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Andrew Matthews (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Patrick W. Gilmore (Jul 22)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Steven M. Bellovin (Jul 22)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox John C. A. Bambenek (Jul 22)
- RE: DNS Hijacking by Cox Marcus H. Sachs (Jul 22)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Steven M. Bellovin (Jul 22)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox James Hess (Jul 22)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Perry Lorier (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox Sean Donelan (Jul 23)
- Re: DNS Hijacking by Cox James Hess (Jul 23)