Reply #2: Another spin: Net Neutrality Nightmare Come True?

[NVMojo]

June 8, 2006

Was Cox Communications, an ISP and online classifieds site, caught this week paying Internet security firm Authentium to block customer access to the free classifieds site Craigslist.org?

Or was it a case of a simple bug in the system?

Authentium's Ray Dickinson told internetnews.com that a blog post brought the problem to his company's attention and that they were already working on fixing it.

"This has nothing to do with policy," Dickinson said. "The glitches boil down to two technical issues. One on our end and one on theirs.

"The Craigslist server returns a TCP packet of zero window and our firewall driver doesn't handle that properly and all subsequent exchanges happen one byte at time."

"This is a technical glitch," he said. "It's a bug. It's a bug we're going to fix."

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http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3612096