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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. Re:migrate by Fallon · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't understand all the hate for Comcast, at least here in Colorado Springs. In the past year and a half I've had service with them I've had less than a couple of hours of downtime (at least that was their fault and not me fiddling with my router). Good bandwidth & pings, who could as for more. It really blew me away after spending the past decade on military bases in the middle of nowhere overseas or downrange (1 second+ ping times, 10-30% packet loss, modem class bandwidth).

  2. Re:migrate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://consumerist.com/2010/09/comcast-wont-give-me-tv-service-because-im-a-home-business-customer.html

    "Comcast won't give me TV service because I'm a home business customer"

  3. Re:What is this? by ctg1701 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stop posting press release posts.

    Here is some non-Comcastic information - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System_Security_Extensions

    Chris what is your non-biased take on Comcast forging TCP reset packets and terrible quality HD?

    Actually I have been working in the IETF to help provide better methods for P2P to work on ISP networks after the issues with the TCP reset packets a few years ago. I am sure you can look up some of the RFC items if you search for them.

    If you have a problem with your HD quality, I suggest getting someone to come look at that. Given I am an Internet Engineer, I don't work on that side of the business.

    Thanks

    Chris
    Comcast

  4. Re:migrate by rwyoder · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you're stuck with Comcast...

    "Stuck with Comcast"??? From my perspective as a network engineer, Comcast is taking the lead in deploying IPv6, and now DNSSec. They are putting the rest of the corporate world to shame on these fronts. (And I am neither an employee, nor a customer of Comcast.)