On Jul 22, 2007, at 6:28 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
if you are a cox customer you might want to have a reasoned discussion with them and find out more details and whether you can reach a resolution. if they dont play ball tho you ultimately would have to vote with your $$ and switch.. This is a ridiculous argument as in many places there is only one game in town for affordable high speed internet for end users.
Yes, but at least the incumbents have their cash cows protected (who me? cynical?)
However, you don't have to switch providers to run your own caching server. Unless Cox is intercepting all DNS queries (instead of just mucking about with the caching servers they operate), running your own caching server will likely solve the problem.
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