At 04:11 PM 6/25/98 -0400, Jon Lewis wrote:
Has anyone else noticed Digex playing with transparent proxying on their backbone? We have one of our T1's through them, and found that all web traffic going out our Digex connection goes through a proxy. We've got customers with web sites that are broken now because they can't communicate with things like Cybercash, because their outgoing http requests are hijacked and sent through a Digex web cache.
Digex wants us to register each web server out on the rest of the internet that hosts from our network need to talk directly to. This looks like the beginning of a big PITA.
Sounds more like time to change Internet vendors. You've now told me whom I DON'T want to do business with. Yeah, I know renumbering's a bitch. I just went through it myself.
I wouldn't have a problem with Digex setting up some web caches and encouraging customers to setup their own caches and have them talk to the Digex ones via ICP...but caching everything without our knowledge/consent stinks.
Yeah, it tells you when to change vendors. ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:rmeyer@mhsc.com>rmeyer@mhsc.com Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!