[Gllug] wicd manager

Christopher Hunter cehunter at gb-x.org
Mon Oct 19 18:19:38 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 12:34 +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:

> Phorm is actually implemented as a transparent HTTP proxy and does not  
> touch DNS.
> 
> As the saying goes, don't attribute to malice what can be explained by  
> incompetence. Many ISPs just don't care enough about DNS to keep it  
> working reliably.
> 

Perhaps it was just a coincidence that they started to have persistent
DNS failures just at the same time as they implemented "Phorm", but they
have "previous".

You know the old saying:

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and three times is
conspiracy!

C.



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