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Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations
- Subject: Reverse DNS RFCs and Recommendations
- From: ongbh at ispworkshop.com (Beng Hui Ong)
- Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2013 10:13:50 +0800
we cannot assume that the connection between isp and cpe is a single entity.
a typical example will be the guy who run the dslam and the guy who run the bras belong to two different companies in market which mandate open access.
Alex Rubenstein <alex at corp.nac.net> wrote:
>> >> Not necessarily. When the CPE is configured through DHCP (or PPP?),
>> >> the ISP can send the secret.
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>> > Which can be seen, in many cases, by other parties
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>> Who can see the packets sent from the local ISP to the CPE directly
>> connected to the ISP?
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>The NSA, FBI, CIA, DHS. Or, the ISP, the ISP's employees, contractors, sub-contractors. Or the phone company handling the PPPOE, L2TP, or whatever else. Or the WiFi sniffer on the street outside.
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