Comcast DNS Redirection Launched In Trial Markets

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 9, 2009 @06:40AM from the looks-like-you-want-xxy-porn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Comcast has finally launched its DNS Redirector service in trial markets (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington state), and has submitted a working draft of the technology to the IETF for review. Comcast customers can opt-out from the service by providing their account username and cable modem MAC address. Customers in trial areas using 'old' Comcast DNS servers, or non-Comcast DNS servers, should not be affected by this. This deployment comes after many previous ISPs, like DSLExtreme, were forced to pull the plug on such efforts as a result of customer disapproval/retaliation. Some may remember when VeriSign tried this back in 2003, where it also failed."

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The future.. or THE FUTURE? by synthesizerpatel · 2009-07-09 06:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's COM^H^H^HCRAPTASTIC!
Re:Opt Out page is Slashdotted by Macrat · 2009-07-09 07:04 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Or is it Comcasted?
Comcastic!
Re:Keep trying till you succeed by raddan · 2009-07-09 07:42 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sounds like the same strategy we'll have to use to get to their slashdotted DNS opt-out page. I kinda wonder if they did that on purpose.