Troy Unrau (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} troy_at_kde) wrote,@ 2009-07-05 14:39:00 |
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ISP DNS hijacking (or Rogers, I vote against you with my wallet)
Well, as I'm surfing the net this fine Sunday and reading all about the comings and goings at GCDS, slowing adjusting my hugh to an envious green, I happened to click on a dead link. Wow! I got a search page from the local ISP that provides blanket wireless to my apartment building. Roger's Cable, one of the largest ISP's in Canada, is DNS hijacking!
The problem is that I'm not the customer, the apartment block owner is, so I can't even complain. But here's the thing - with some 20 suites using the same pipe, the internet connection here is pretty shoddy anyway. I was thinking of spending the money to buy my own dedicated connection, and have been shopping around. Roger's has been advertising fairly extensively to me via snail-mail, and there's a kiosk in the strip mall across the street. Pretty convenient, and I was even considering their service. The more I read about it, however, the less likely I am to become a Roger's customer. Deep Packet Inspection, closed ports, inserting frames into websites, and now DNS hijacking! No thank you, Rogers. I think I'll vote with my wallet - I wonder how much dry-loop DSL is going for these days...
*green*
Well, as I'm surfing the net this fine Sunday and reading all about the comings and goings at GCDS, slowing adjusting my hugh to an envious green, I happened to click on a dead link. Wow! I got a search page from the local ISP that provides blanket wireless to my apartment building. Roger's Cable, one of the largest ISP's in Canada, is DNS hijacking!
The problem is that I'm not the customer, the apartment block owner is, so I can't even complain. But here's the thing - with some 20 suites using the same pipe, the internet connection here is pretty shoddy anyway. I was thinking of spending the money to buy my own dedicated connection, and have been shopping around. Roger's has been advertising fairly extensively to me via snail-mail, and there's a kiosk in the strip mall across the street. Pretty convenient, and I was even considering their service. The more I read about it, however, the less likely I am to become a Roger's customer. Deep Packet Inspection, closed ports, inserting frames into websites, and now DNS hijacking! No thank you, Rogers. I think I'll vote with my wallet - I wonder how much dry-loop DSL is going for these days...
*green*
