You sir have a very sick sense of humor. Very disturbed I think. ☺ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Richard Stovall Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 12:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] HughesNet and AWS
That is so friggin' awesome it hurts. On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Damien Solodow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Having a fun issue, and figured I’d see if anyone else has run into something like it and has a solution. ☺ One of our SaaS apps is hosted on AWS, and AWS has the lovely habit of using very short DNS TTLs and changing IPs frequently. Normally not that big a deal. However, it looks like a satellite provider used by a number of our users (HughesNet) has a wonderful little “feature” called DNS Acceleration. This looks to be a local DNS caching server (which ignores the provided TTL) that runs on their modem. This means that the user almost always gets outdated information from DNS for this SaaS app, which prevents them from accessing it. There doesn’t appear to be a way in the modem UI to turn off this “feature”, and it looks to intercept *all* outbound DNS traffic, so even if I set the client or their router to use a different DNS server it still gets intercepted. Anyone run into this or have a useful contact at HughesNet to sort this out? DAMIEN SOLODOW Senior Systems Engineer 317.447.6033<tel:317.447.6033> (office) 317.447.6014<tel:317.447.6014> (fax) HARRISON COLLEGE 500 North Meridian St Suite 500 Indianapolis, IN 46204-1213 www.harrison.edu<http://www.harrison.edu/> This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are property of Indiana Members Credit Union, are confidential, and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom this e-mail is addressed. If you are not one of the named recipient(s) or otherwise have reason to believe that you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete this message immediately from your computer. Any other use, retention, dissemination, forwarding, printing, or copying of this email is strictly prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
