Blocking bittorrent?

[Craig White]

On a residential account ($39 per month, dhcp), they definitely do
packet filtering...but I don't think it goes beyond ports 25, 80,
137-139 & 445

I will report back next week on bittorrent because FC-5 is supposed to
release 3/20 (Mr. Coffman will go into a heavy pant just reading this)
and I'll see upload/download but I probably have to fix my router to
permit people to download.

Craig

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 14:56 -0700, Robert L Chavez wrote:
> I was using bittorrent just fine with a 25k upload this last weekend.
> I don't use the default port, and I have forwarding setup through my
> linksys router.
> 
> Would/Does cox actually do packet filtering?  I know this would make
> me very upset since I get my anime fix through bittorrent.  
> 
> -Rob
> 
> On 3/14/06, Josh Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
>         
>         
>         COX doesnt just block the port outright, I believe they do
>         packet inspection
>         and block based on protocol.  This is a very controversial
>         thing ISPs are
>         doing right now, plays into the whole Net Neutrality
>         thing.  My COX 
>         connection stops working on a regular basis.  Time to
>         outsource COX. jmz
>         
>         
>         On Tuesday 14 March 2006 12:56, Craig White wrote:
>         > On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 12:49 -0700, der.hans wrote:
>         > > Am 12. Mar, 2006 schwätzte Carl Parrish so: 
>         > > > How can you tell if your ISP is blocking bittorrent
>         uploads? I've
>         > > > noticed that on the last 6 or so torrent downloads that
>         there hasn't
>         > > > been *any* upload traffic. I find that hard to believe.
>         So how can I 
>         > > > find out if this is cox or not?
>         > >
>         > > Move to DSL or Cox Business and stop paying for restricted
>         access to the
>         > > Net :).
>         > >
>         > > I noticed the other day that Cox seems to also not provide
>         results from 
>         > > MX lookups :(. No warning that they're dropping the
>         requests either.
>         >
>         > ----
>         > # nslookup
>         >
>         > > server MailScanner warning: numerical links are often
>         malicious:68.2.16.30
>         >
>         > Default server: MailScanner warning: numerical links are
>         often malicious:68.2.16.30
>         > Address: 68.2.16.30#53
>         >
>         > > www.azapple.com
>         >
>         > Server:         MailScanner warning: numerical links are
>         often malicious:68.2.16.30 
>         > Address:        68.2.16.30#53
>         >
>         > Non-authoritative answer:
>         > Name:   www.azapple.com
>         > Address: MailScanner warning: numerical links are often
>         malicious:204.11.161.11
>         > 
>         > > set type=mx
>         > > azapple.com
>         >
>         > Server:         MailScanner warning: numerical links are
>         often malicious:68.2.16.30
>         > Address:        68.2.16.30#53
>         >
>         > Non-authoritative answer: 
>         > azapple.com     mail exchanger = 10
>         mail-015.phx01.alevelhigher.com.
>         > azapple.com     mail exchanger = 20
>         mail-020.phx01.alevelhigher.com.
>         >
>         > Authoritative answers can be found from:
>         > azapple.com     nameserver = ns2.alevelhigher.com.
>         > azapple.com     nameserver = ns1.alevelhigher.com.
>         >
>         > > exit
>         >
>         > I'm on a cox 'residential' system (dhcp) 
>         >
>         > definitely ports 25 and 80 and I am quite certain netbios
>         ports are
>         > blocked here but I don't know of anything else.
>         >
>         > Craig
>         >
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