Verizon continues to stand out from the pack in a growing number of new and
interesting ways. Whether this reaching out to P2P users is legit, or involves
hidden gotchas, remains to be seen. Although, if the abundance of bandwidth
afforded by its FiOS offering is any indication of its
Verizon does continue to set itself apart.
The statement:
Pasko stressed, however, that Verizon wants to work with P2P companies
that are focusing on delivery of legitimate media, like Pando -- not
systems where anyone can upload anything, which usually means lots of
pirated material.
does
Frank A. Coluccio wrote:
Verizon continues to stand out from the pack in a growing number of new and
interesting ways. Whether this reaching out to P2P users is legit, or involves
hidden gotchas, remains to be seen. Although, if the abundance of bandwidth
afforded by its FiOS offering is any
Kevin McArthur wrote:
Verizon does continue to set itself apart.
The statement:
Pasko stressed, however, that Verizon wants to work with P2P
companies that are focusing on delivery of legitimate media, like
Pando -- not systems where anyone can upload anything, which usually
means lots of
OK, we need to get to the bottom of this. Last I heard, Verizon
allowed subscribers to opt-out of their DNS redirection service
through the rather cumbersome technique of manually changing
client DNS settings. Can we confirm that this is no longer the
case, and that regardless of client DNS
One other comment:
This is interesting for a couple of factors:
The files distributed are relatively few, so they should actually
cache relatively well. And with FIOS, Verizon may have the same cost
for upstream/downstream as everybody else, but a vastly cheaper local
loop per bit.
Thus P2P
I've received a number of replies to my request for more specific
information regarding Verizon and Time Warner (RoadRunner) DNS
redirections/diversions.
Regarding Verizon (the forwarded message below best summarizes), it
appears that while Verizon has apparently removed the redirection
(to a
It may be worse than that. If the diversion is really through
fabricated DNS responses, applications such as email could be at
risk. V
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: nnsquad@nnsquad.org nnsquad@nnsquad.org
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
It may be worse than that. If the diversion is really through
fabricated DNS responses, applications such as email could be at
risk. V
I agree. Fabricated DNS responses affecting various applications was
one of the issues that was front and center with Site Finder, as we
all remember, with
