On 9 Feb 2005, at 16:48, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
I know this is a "consumer" question, but I find it very strange...
Quote from the Paradise Help Desk Email system when questioned about why I was being charged to access kirsty.paradise.net.nz , their secondary DNS Server...
"Kirsty is our secondary DNS server, you will get charged traffic connecting to our DNS servers."
Any other people working for ISP's wanna comment on if they charge?
I know, from what Xtra's support staff said, they don't.. I just find it really hard to believe.
So, you have bought some kind of internet access service which charges for traffic by the byte, and you are surprised when traffic gets charged by the byte? Or you think udp/53 traffic should be special for some reason? If Xtra really zero-rates traffic on udp/53, I presume everybody is just using openvpn to tunnel all their traffic out on that port? Joe