News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage.

Re:Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage by HybridCurve on Saturday June 17, 2023 @12:58PM (#36372015)
When comcast started redirecting my mistyped URLs to their own pages, I stopped using their DNS. No regrets.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage by donutpepperoni on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:12PM (#36372155)
I've also seen them hijack http streams.

https://blog.ryankearney.com/2013/01/comcast-caught-intercep...

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage by KomoD on Saturday June 17, 2023 @01:00PM (#36372034)
Yikes... do they still do that now or have they stopped?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage by joecool1029 on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:05PM (#36372730)
Not for many years but they have started trying to sell us a spyware 'security edge' appliance that we've noped out of that seems to break DNS for some people.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Tell HN: Comcast/Xfinity is having a widespread DNS outage by MiddleEndian on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:02PM (#36372679)
I remember seeing that in the past (before switching to a different DNS). That should be illegal.
[ Parent | on HN ]