On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:20:46AM -0800, Leo Mauler wrote:
--- Arthur Pemberton [email protected] wrote:
My fellow RoadRunner using geeks have no doubt noticed this themselves by now,
Yes, I did notice this happening.
but for everyone else, an article is up on Slashdot:
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/26/1741253
ISPs are becoming more and more despicable -- I just wonder what tech guy sold his soul implementing this, surely going against standard networking behavior like this must cause one to lose their geek membership.
Isn't this just one sliver of a lawsuit away from RoadRunner losing its "network neutrality" status? Comcast went a bit further, but still similar in implementation, by monitoring and "redirecting" (into /dev/null) BitTorrent, Gnutella, and Lotus Notes packets, and is currently getting sued over it.
Someone with kids should call up RoadRunner and ask them if, since they're already monitoring the customer's net traffic anyway, could they just filter all the porn too?
Being a RR customer, I was curious to see this, but I cannot reproduce it. What am I doing wrong?
[hald@iolo ~]$ lynx -mime_header http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/
Looking up www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com Unable to locate remote host www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com. Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.
lynx: Can't access startfile http://www.asdfghjklqwertyuiop.com/ [hald@iolo ~]$
Thanks, -- Hal