It seems this ISP wants to provide proprietary services tailored to each
customer for differentiation. I am not going to question what they want
to do, but they can do so without breaking the features you have
mentioned. This is one of the main problems considered and resolved by
the PANA WG (not that this ISP is going to adopt the solution just
because it is available :) If they specify the requirements in the
form of an individual draft, IETF could suggest or develop more elegant
solutions.
- prakash
Roland Bless wrote:
Hi,
just yesterday a larger german DSL/Internet provider activated
- without a real notice - a feature as "field trial" in my city,
so that HTTP(S) requests of customers are redirected to their own
web portal (apparently using some soft state timeout).
I'm also aware of several other dial-up providers who do that.
This breaks IMHO a lot of applications, e.g., DynDNS
registrations of DSL routers (which would not be necessary
with IPv6 but that is another issue), automated Windows/Linux
updates, anti-virus database updates, RSS and presumably many
more. Though they sell it as a "service to
customers" (luckily you still can turn this feature off
if you know how to do it...), I see it as very dangerous
since automated security updates etc. will fail, i.e. they
even decrease the security of their cutomers! Is there
anything newer than RFC 2775 that one could give as
strong technical advice to abandon that feature and to
not turn it on for all other users?
Regards,
Roland
P.S.: please don't comment that I should just switch
the provider in this case. I like to raise the awareness of
the provider that this feature is _technically_ dangerous,
though it may make a lot of sense for the marketing people...
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