I saw the following in another news group.

"Not to mention when you trust your ISPs DNS server you open yourself up to
being mislead even if the DNS server isn't compromised.

This is especially easy to do in most cable-modem networks because
the entire neighborhood is on "broadcast" where everyone in the
neighborhood sees all the traffic from each other.

Here's a scenario, your neighbor has his box set up to listen for
your dns requests going out. When his box sees your request go out it
crafts a response that looks like it is coming from the DNS server
feeding it a bogus IP, thus redirecting your computer to the wrong IP.
"


Is that true on a DOCSIS cable network?

My Motorola SURFboard sb4220 modem status page shows the
Initialize Baseline Privacy Done
which I thought encripted the packets passed through it.

Now that I think about it, if it encripted the packets how would
they get where they need to go?

Bit Twister wrote:

I can see the traffic from the head end, but not other users traffic.

Bit Twister wrote:

That was only true nearly 9 years ago, and in CT! It is not true
anywhere these days.

That would only be possible on a LAN.