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On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 13:06:16 +0100 |
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Norman Rieß <norman@×××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> Am 29.03.2013 um 23:34 schrieb Paul Hartman |
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> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>: |
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> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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> > <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> >> On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> >>> In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to |
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> >>> reply), fail randomly when they should resolve, return an IP |
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> >>> (which goes to their ad-laden "helper" website if you are using a |
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> >>> web browser) when they should instead return nxdomain, and they |
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> >>> have openly admitted to selling customer DNS lookup history to |
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> >>> marketers for targeted advertising. |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> >> That is just evil. Have you no alternative to this ISP? |
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> > Not really. |
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> > I have a 100 megabit connection through the cable company; my only |
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> > wired alternative is DSL (1.5 mbit for almost half the price I'm |
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> > paying for 100mbit). Cellular or satellite are not viable options |
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> > for me because of comparatively poor value, latency and miniscule |
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> > data usage caps. |
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> |
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> > […] |
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> > It is no longer legal for local governments to award monopolies, but |
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> > the damage has been done. What we have is essentially the cable TV |
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> > infrastructure that was laid out during the decade when local cable |
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> > monopolies were legal, and the cost of entry for a new player into |
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> > the market now is so high that nobody ever bothers. End result for |
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> > consumers is a lack of choice. There are some places where |
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> > competition exists, but those places are pretty rare, in my |
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> > experience. |
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> > There are some other possible alternatives to cable internet and |
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> > DSL, such as municipal wifi, mesh networks, powerline and FTTx, but |
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> > none are available where I live. |
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> > The service I receive from the cable company here is actually |
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> > excellent, with the exception of the aforementioned DNS woes. |
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> > Pretty much every major ISP in the US does DNS-hijacking and other |
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> > shenanigans, so there's no avoiding the evilness. I believe the |
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> > board members of major cable and telecom companies would sell their |
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> > own mothers into slavery if it meant a rise in share prices or a |
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> > larger bonus at the end of the year... |
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> That is pretty much the same as what happened in Germany. The |
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> telephone network was build by the german postal service in the past |
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> and was run by the government. As we all know everything works better |
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> and cheaper when things are privatized, so the Deutsche Telekom was |
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> created and with it a semi monopoly over night. Regions not dense |
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> enough are not part of the developing plans of any of the companies. |
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> So if you are lucky like me, you are stuck with 16mbit DSL provided |
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> by one company rented by an other company. If people start to build |
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> their own network or a competitor reaches for a specific |
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> underdeveloped region, this region gets an upgrade like to DSL 3 Mbit |
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> or something like that, so the competitors draw of. If you are really |
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> lucky you live in a region which is really dense or a cable company |
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> provides you with internet, so you get 100mbit. But this is only a |
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> fraction of all people. If the government is confronted with this |
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> they say, the market will regulate that, which it does not. And if |
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> voices get too loud, the tell the companies to develop the |
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> underdeveloped regions, they shake hands on TV and nothing happens. |
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> And as Paul said, most ISP do DNS-hijacking and the like, which |
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> breaks things in incredible unexpected ways. |
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> So when i wrote this post to the mailing list and got answers like |
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> "unnecessary crap" and "why make it available for everyone" i thougt, |
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> this to be answers of some weirdos which should be ignored. Here you |
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> do not trust your ISP… you use the ISP which sucks less or the only |
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> one that gives you any internet at all. If you reach a certain level |
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> of knowledge, you change your DNS settings to free DNS servers and if |
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> you run a resolver you do it for the other poor souls as well. There |
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> are lists of unfiltered DNS Servers |
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> (http://www.ungefiltert-surfen.de/nameserver/de.html), which are |
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> checked regularly if they provide unfiltered answers an the like. And |
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> there are howtos for the average user on how to change the dns |
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> settings and to avoid your isp´s dns servers. |
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> Regards |
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> Norman |
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There is also the possibility to use opendns.com |
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I've been using them for years, and have not had any trouble. I started |
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using them when my ISP decided to block some sites. And their standard |
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service is free :) |
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Best regards, |
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Rene |