[Gllug] wicd manager

[Peter Corlett]

On 19 Oct 2009, at 07:12, Christopher Hunter wrote:
[...]
> The fact that their DNS falls over periodically is probably due to the
> flaky "Phorm" software that they claim isn't installed (though they DO
> ship details of your browsing habits to third parties, even though  
> they
> persist in claiming that they don't).


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.


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