Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic(tech.slashdot.org)
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Comcast Intercepts and Redirects Port 53 Traffic
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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."
Can anyone actually reproduce this? According to numerous comments on the /. article (including one from a Comcast representative) this is not true.
I'm a comcast customer who uses opendns, and I could not reproduce this behavior.
Netalyzer gave a message about port 53, but I'm clearly still using openDNS, so I dunno.
People believed it because it sounds like something Comcast would actually do.
I got this: Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
I read through a lot of the comments on this story, and it appears that it's been problematic to replicate.
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.