Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic

Posted by gasull on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @04:50AM
from the tech.slashdot.org dept.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/09/1731238/Comcast-Intercepts-and-Redirects-Port-53-Traffic?from=rss

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by sounddust on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @09:21AM (#650934)

After 439 comments on Slashdot, and not a single person being able to replicate the results here or on slashdot, I think it's time to kill this story as inaccurate.

Edit: even the original author of the article is claiming "it doesn't happen anymore." It's probably an issue with his testing/setup rather than comcast.

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by gasull on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @12:28PM (#651262)

I agree, but I can't delete the story anymore (there's no link).

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by ScottWhigham on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @07:16AM (#650818)

I hadn't seen the Netalyzer before - damn impressive. Among the impressive results was a "Minor aberration: Your computer's clock is 17ms too fast."

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by tlrobinson on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @06:19AM (#650784)

Can anyone actually reproduce this? According to numerous comments on the /. article (including one from a Comcast representative) this is not true.

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by obvioustroll on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @06:52AM (#650800)

I'm a comcast customer who uses opendns, and I could not reproduce this behavior.

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by eli on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @08:38AM (#650886)

Netalyzer gave a message about port 53, but I'm clearly still using openDNS, so I dunno.

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by spectre on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @06:34AM (#650791)

People believed it because it sounds like something Comcast would actually do.

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by jmtame on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @05:53AM (#650774)

I got this: Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.

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Re:Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic by TrevorJ on Wednesday June 10, 2009 @09:10AM (#650918)

I read through a lot of the comments on this story, and it appears that it's been problematic to replicate.

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