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Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic

Posted by kdawson on from the why-we-need-ipv6 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting (and profane) writeup of one frustrated user's discovery that Comcast is actually intercepting DNS requests bound for non-Comcast DNS servers and redirecting them to their own servers. I had obviously heard of the DNS hijacking for nonexistent domains, but I had no idea they'd actually prevent people from directly contacting their own DNS servers." If true, this is a pretty serious escalation in the Net Neutrality wars. Someone using Comcast, please replicate the simple experiment spelled out in the article and confirm or deny the truth of it. Also, it would be useful if someone using Comcast ran the ICSI Netalyzr and posted the resulting permalink in the comments.

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  1. Fuck `Em All by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 5, Funny

    When Comcast took over from Time Warner here, I bailed.

    I mean, Time Warner is evil. AT&T (who I switched to), is evil.

    But Comcast is Motherfucking Sith Lord EVIL.

    Scary fucking eeeeevil. Nazi evil. RIAA evil.

     

    1. Re:Fuck `Em All by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Funny

      So what are you trying to say?

      C'mon man, stop beating around the bush and get to your point.

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    2. Re:Fuck `Em All by Itninja · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think the parent was just using a bit of hyperbole there. Also, it appears he only has a limited understanding of what the word 'evil' means. And the word 'fuck'. And, well, he just don't appear to be that bright in general.

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    3. Re:Fuck `Em All by bretticus · · Score: 5, Funny

      Don't make fun of Poland.

    4. Re:Fuck `Em All by interkin3tic · · Score: 4, Funny

      C'mon man, stop beating around the bush and get to your point.

      It had something to do with star wars. The sith lord part tipped me off.

  2. That's a negative by jjb3rd · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm a comcast user and it works for me...perhaps his home network is the problem. A Linux user having a misconfigured network?!??! Oh wait this is Slashdot...nevermind.

  3. Re:Not happening to me by darthservo · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or, more simply, query something you know doesn't exist (like asdfdsafdsafhdsds.com) against your server

    Thanks alot. Now I'm going to get slashdotted.

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  4. Re:Not happening to me by __aasqbs9791 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Then that's even worse! It means Comcast must have hacked his server to falsify the logs! /s