[Gllug] Why are ISPs so stupid?

[Jason Clifford]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:

> Erm, for the kind of people who are going to be stung by this kind of
> thing, the Internet == WWW.  It doesn't have to work for every
> conceivable customer, just the most common.
> 
> And when I said redirect port 80, the implication was block every other
> port.

Which is expensive to do on a large scale as it has to be implemented on 
the router's acl and that means additional costs for the routers and using 
the time of a network admin/engineer to handle such matters. 

It can be automated which deals with the second problem but not the first.

ISPs tend to run on small margins as it is.

Jason
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