On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:51, Marek Isalski <[email protected]> wrote:

>> On 20 Jan 2016, at 11:45, Simon Lockhart <[email protected]> wrote:
>> How would you, as a service provider, capture this information, assuming you
>> have no DPI capability at the moment?
> 
> Log all the queries to provider's recursive DNS resolvers.
> 
> Then customers switch to using 8.8.8.8, OpenDNS, etc, instead of the ISP's 
> own.  So Google has to do the logging, but also providers are compelled to 
> trivially DPI all UDP/TCP port 53 and log that.
> 
> Then every customer deploys DNSCrypt and providers' DPI becomes expensive, 
> and a battle of costs begins between ISPs and the Home Office.

Any middle box is expensive and I love how people think encryption solves these 
problems! But in this scenario I'd wager "ISPs lose battle on costs with the 
home office" would be the outcome.

Neil 


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> Marek Isalski
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