[dns-operations] .SE releases report on consumer broadband routers

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Feb 26 10:18:54 UTC 2008


On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:06:31AM +0100,
 Patrik Wallstrom <pawal at blipp.com> wrote 
 a message of 58 lines which said:

> "Three of the ten routers that .SE has tested, have passed the test
> specification without any remarks. The other seven have had severe
> problems when using what might be considered plain Domain Name
> System (DNS).

If they mess with DNS data, they are not routers (a layer 3 device,
neutral with respect to the content), they are middleboxes (a layer 1
to 9 device, able to break anything).



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