It seems this ISP wants to provide services tailored to each customer. I
am not going to question the validity of it, but they can do so without
breaking the features you have mentioned. This is one of the main
problems considered and resolved by the PANA WG (not that this ISP is
going to adopt the solution just because it is available :) Most ISPs
are trying to keep services proprietary for differentiation. If they
specify the requirements in the form of an individual draft, IETF could
suggest or develop more elegant solutions.
- prakash
Roland Bless wrote:
Hi,
just yesterday a larger german DSL/Internet provider activated
- without a real notice - a feature as "field trial" in my city,
so that HTTP(S) requests of customers are redirected to their own
web portal (apparently using some soft state timeout).
I'm also aware of several other dial-up providers who do that.
This breaks IMHO a lot of applications, e.g., DynDNS
registrations of DSL routers (which would not be necessary
with IPv6 but that is another issue), automated Windows/Linux
updates, anti-virus database updates, RSS and presumably many
more. Though they sell it as a "service to
customers" (luckily you still can turn this feature off
if you know how to do it...), I see it as very dangerous
since automated security updates etc. will fail, i.e. they
even decrease the security of their cutomers! Is there
anything newer than RFC 2775 that one could give as
strong technical advice to abandon that feature and to
not turn it on for all other users?
Regards,
Roland
P.S.: please don't comment that I should just switch
the provider in this case. I like to raise the awareness of
the provider that this feature is _technically_ dangerous,
though it may make a lot of sense for the marketing people...
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