[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#626822: Bug#626822: network-manager: can fallback to using 4.2.2.1 DNS server?

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 15.05.2011 18:20, schrieb Timo Juhani Lindfors:
> Package: network-manager
> Version: 0.8.999-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> On a Finnish free software IRC channel I heard that sometimes when
> people use a 3G stick of their Finnish ISP (Saunalahti) their DNS
> requests are sent to 4.2.2.1 which according to traceroute is
> somewhere in the UK.

Do you possibly have more references regarding this issue?

> 
> I have not hit this bug myself but I started investigating and found the
> below function in the source code. Does this mean that gtei.net can
> profile what websites people visit when they use a Finnish ISP?
> 

> ppp_ip4_config (NMPPPManager *ppp_manager,
> 	 * providers to return 10.11.12.13 and 10.11.12.14 for the DNS servers.
> 	 * Apparently fixed in ppp-2.4.5 but we've had some reports that this is
> 	 * not the case.
> 	 *
> 	 * http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e09ef6886bbf00bc5a9a641110f801e372ffde6
> 	 * http://git.ozlabs.org/?p=ppp.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=f8191bf07df374f119a07910a79217c7618f113e
> 	 */
> 

I'm brining Dan in the loop here.


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