Unfortunately, net neutrality is so loosely defined that it is not easy to discuss it. What does it really require? I think few would argue that ISP's should not censor the traffic they carry, nor limit with whom their customers can communicate. Such behavior seems so unAmerican as to be beyond dispute. Most would also agree that it is fair for ISP's to charge more for fast connections than for slow ones. It seems reasonable that if you pay for a 1 Mbps connection, the ISP should be able to limit you to that speed. But what about Sprint's practice of intercepting all DNS requests, regardless of the destination IP address, and resolving the DNS using its own servers? Should this be allowed? We discovered this practice when we noticed that some of our employees when using Sprint air cards were able to connect to internet services we had intended to block by excluding them from our DNS servers. We soon realized that the DNS requests from our employee's laptops, which we had configured to go to our own DNS servers, were never making it through Sprint's last mile. Thus, our employees could see the entire internet which of course raises security and other concerns. Sprint at first denied they were doing this, but finally admitted it to us. It would appear that Sprint makes money selling "rerouting" services to their advertisers. If someone mistypes the URL, Sprint intercepts the DNS request and prepares their own response along the lines, "Did you mean ..." followed by the name of one or more of their advertisers. It seems to me that this kind of behavior should be illegal. Bob Robert Ridge Provo City 351 W Center Provo, UT 84601 rri...@provo.utah.gov 801.852.6550
>>> "Ryan Simpkins" <p...@ryansimpkins.com> 4/9/2010 4:17 PM >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_neutrality Side "A" (the government wants to stop free speech): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-2gykOf5Is http://www.americansforprosperity.org/102009-net-neutrality-whats-their-philosophy Side "B" (corporations want to stop free speech): http://www.cc.org/blog/net_neutrality_not_some_marxist_plot http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/10/04/06/courts-can*t-take-away-our-internet Anyone care to post a rational response to these views? Perhaps the wikipedia article is wrong? Does it need to be edited to include a section on Net Neutrality being part of the "Marxist agenda?" I'm not taking sides, simply throwing out the information. If you support net neutrality, do you consider yourself a Marxist socialist? -Ryan /* PLUG: http://plug.org, ( http://plug.org,/ ) #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
