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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. California? by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Californians are in some kind of budget crisis...or are they? I am in Timbuktu if that matters.

  2. Re: Linus Torvalds is a turd burglar by multisync · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I am interested in signing up for your TRON fanzine. Please advise, is it a monthly, or a quarterly?

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  3. Re:Not happening to me by johannesg · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I just verified that it's not currently happening. I'm in California if that matters.

    Me too. I'm also in CA and it is not curently happening.

    Are you saying this is currently not happening?

  4. Re:Fuck `Em All by sharkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Comcast is like being forced to have group sex with Oprah Winfrey, Rosie O'Donnell, Roseanne Barr and Chelsea Clinton WITHOUT benefit of a blindfold, noseclip, earplugs and Wild Turkey.

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  5. Re: Linus Torvalds is a turd burglar by machine321 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Probably a bi. Monthly. Bi-monthly.

  6. Re:Not happening to me by x4r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    you right, and US laws was wrong. in you dream.