Blocking bittorrent?

[Josh Zeidner]

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 68.2.16.30
>
> Default server: 68.2.16.30
> Address: 68.2.16.30#53
>
> > www.azapple.com
>
> Server:         68.2.16.30
> Address:        68.2.16.30#53
>
> Non-authoritative answer:
> Name:   www.azapple.com
> Address: 204.11.161.11
>
> > set type=mx
> > azapple.com
>
> Server:         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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