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Comcast Migrating Customers To DNSSEC Resolvers

Posted by Soulskill on from the must-be-easier-to-throttle dept.

ctg1701 passes along this quote from a Comcast announcement: "Starting today we will begin migrating customers who have opted out of our Domain Helper service over to our production DNSSEC-validating servers. This will happen first in a selected part of our Virginia network, and will later expand to all markets in the following sixty days, at which point all of our customers who have opted out of Domain Helper will be migrated. After this has been completed, we will migrate the rest of our customers, which we anticipate will stretch into the early part of 2011."

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  1. migrate by jsnipy · · Score: 1, Funny

    You really should be migrating off of Comcast

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    1. Re:migrate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, I'll just migrate off Comcast over to that other cable company that offers service right alongside the existing monopoly.

    2. Re:migrate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      I can't fill you in on all the shenanigans that Comcast has been up to. Not enough time, and tl;dr.

      Here ya go

    3. Re:migrate by tobiasly · · Score: 2, Funny

      It seems if you manually migrate to their DNSSEC servers, Domain Helper goes away, as according to the FAQs the two are incompatible.

      Wait, you mean to say that DNSSEC prevents man-in-the-middle servers from intercepting and modifying the traffic? Sounds like a pretty big flaw in this new "standard", they obviously weren't thinking of long-term monetization opportunities...

  2. DNSSEC Service Resolvers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Am I tired already? I read that title as "Revolvers", and I wondered what the hell Comcast was doing selling handguns to people. For about thirty seconds. Then I wondered what the hell a "DNSSEC" revolver was for another thirty seconds. Then I smacked myself, re-read the thread title, and decided to make this utterly pointless post.

    Sleep deprivation is a wonderful thing...

  3. Re:Pitchforks and torches. Nice job, /. by AlamedaStone · · Score: 2, Funny

    The dude from Comcast's rote answer to questions was to post links to Comcast's PR.

    As for my company and who I shill for, that's easy. I'm a public sector education and video teleconferencing goblin in the 49th state. And I shill for children with low incidence disabilities who are using technology.

    Another K Street fatcat, lobbying for Big Pediatric Disability.

    You people make me sick.

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    "All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
  4. Re:What is this? by Anachragnome · · Score: 2, Funny

    "...Actually I am one of the engineers that run the DNS at Comcast..."

    Until tomorrow morning, at which time you will be fired on the spot for actually providing useful information to Comcast customers.

  5. Re:I used to work for CableVision Chris by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Random bolding - check
    Random quotes - check
    Random allcaps - check

    crazy aggressive web loon - confirmed

    Don't you have some sort of website with point 18 centered Comic Sans to go post on?

  6. Re:I used to work for CableVision Chris by cheese_wallet · · Score: 2, Funny

    are you the timecube guy?