Well said, if you can't build it, don't trust it. Andrew (top posted as per previous convention)
Skywing wrote: > You are brave indeed to trust your packets over the air without a VPN or > tunnel of some sort. > > While it sounds like Sprint is doing something, for lack of a better word, > lame, you would be well advised to not trust your packets to the built-in > cell encryption (obfuscation). > > - S > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert E. Seastrom <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:50 > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: another brick in the wall[ed garden] > > > Dear Sprint EVDO people, > > Your man-in-the-middle hijacking of UDP/53 DNS queries against > nameservers that I choose to query from my laptop on Sprint EVDO is > not appreciated. Even less appreciated is your complete blocking of > TCP/53 DNS queries. > > Queries from my lab: > > r...@click [14] % dig +short @192.148.252.10 version.bind. chaos txt > "Just send your damn query already..." > r...@click [15] % dig +tcp +short @192.148.252.10 version.bind. chaos > txt > "Just send your damn query already..." > r...@click [16] % dig +tcp +short @192.148.252.10 hostname.bind. > chaos txt > "bifrost" > r...@click [17] % > > Queries from my laptop: > > Superfly:~ rs$ dig +short @192.148.252.10 version.bind. chaos txt > "9.6.0-P1" > Superfly:~ rs$ dig +tcp +short @192.148.252.10 version.bind. chaos txt > ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached > Superfly:~ rs$ dig +tcp +short @192.148.252.10 hostname.bind. chaos txt > "ns1-kscymar06.spcsdns.net" > Superfly:~ rs$ > > Guys, I send you money each month to deliver packets for me, not to > invent new ways of being annoying (and breaking TSIG signed updates to > dynamic DNS). Less is more. Please stop dinking with 10-minute-idle > TCP sessions (which I complained about a year and a half ago) and > knock it off with offering DNS service that I did not ask for. > > Sincerely, > > Your Disgruntled Customer, RS > > PS: No, I don't expect that this open letter will get you to fix the > misbehavior, but if some Swedish guy comes along swinging a clue-bat > at you guys I hope he whacks you a couple of times for me. > > > >
