Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 9, 2009 @06:11AM 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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Not surprised by Hyppy · 2009-06-09 06:17 · Score: 0, Redundant

I've tried really hard to be shocked and surprised. I can't. This is just another example of a continuing trend of anti-customer behavior by these guys.
Re: Linus Torvalds is a turd burglar by dalurka · 2009-06-09 08:42 · Score: 0, Redundant

You are now a level -1 Flaimbait.

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