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Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:36:39 -0500
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 04:38:27PM -0600, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
I believe Comcast has made clear their position that they feel content providers should be paying them for access to their customers. I've seen them repeatedly state that they feel networks who send them too much traffic are "abusing their network".
That's rich, given the enormous quantity of spam sourced from Comcast's network over the last decade. (And yes, it's ongoing: 162 unique sources in the last hour noted at one small observation point.) Now I realize that SMTP abuse isn't exactly the most bandwidth-chewing problem. However, it's a surface indicator of underlying security issues, which in this particular case can be summarized as "one heck of a lot of zombies". Given that those systems are known-hostile and under the control of adversaries, it's certain that they're doing all kinds of other things that chew up a lot more bandwidth than the spam does. So maybe instead of engaging in brinkmanship with other network providers or spending engineering time trying to monetize DNS queries, Comcast should try solving this seven-year-old problem and *then* reassess whether or not the pipes are fat enough. ---rsk
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- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Jay Ashworth (Dec 14)
- RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Rettke, Brian (Dec 14)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Rich Kulawiec (Dec 15)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Jon Lewis (Dec 15)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Rich Kulawiec (Dec 17)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Jon Lewis (Dec 15)
- Re: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Jack Bates (Dec 15)
- RE: Some truth about Comcast - WikiLeaks style Randy Epstein (Dec 15)
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