North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: backbone transparent proxy / connection hijacking
At 04:11 PM 6/25/98 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote: >Has anyone else noticed Digex playing with transparent proxying on their >backbone? We have one of our T1's through them, and found that all web >traffic going out our Digex connection goes through a proxy. We've got >customers with web sites that are broken now because they can't >communicate with things like Cybercash, because their outgoing http >requests are hijacked and sent through a Digex web cache. > >Digex wants us to register each web server out on the rest of the >internet that hosts from our network need to talk directly to. This looks >like the beginning of a big PITA. Sounds more like time to change Internet vendors. You've now told me whom I DON'T want to do business with. Yeah, I know renumbering's a bitch. I just went through it myself. >I wouldn't have a problem with Digex setting up some web caches and >encouraging customers to setup their own caches and have them talk to the >Digex ones via ICP...but caching everything without our knowledge/consent >stinks. Yeah, it tells you when to change vendors. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!
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