I'd like to raise awareness of the Comcast blocking.
As stated in subject, I believe Comcast blocks all traffic between its
customers and public tor relay nodes. That is, the blocking is not limited to
tor-related traffic, all other services / ports on the tor relay are blocked.
Background: I a
> This sucks big time, if true. I am trying to ping Comcast from a middle
> relay IP address and it seams, to work, I guess you mean AS33651 -
> Comcast Cable LLC.
The peer's IP address is in ASN 7922, according to whatismyipaddress.com . Note
that my test was always opening a TCP4 connection t
Okay, you planted some doubt. This is a quote what my peer wrote me about the
issue, I hope it is ok to quote, contains no personal or sensitive info,
emphasis added:
> Comcast/Xfinity! has a bumpy past with tor. They periodically block it, get
> yelled out by their subscribers and the media, t
Starting from the most interesting info - another Comcast customer contacted
me, lets call him CCB, and the first Comcast customer I mentioned previously
will be CCA. CCB claims he had to disable some settings - probably "Advanced
Security" - in his Comcast router, because before doing so, nobod
Got a question from [seeess at riseup.net](mailto:see...@riseup.net)
> I had a question about the "advanced security" and the two users you tested
> with. Do either of them use their own customer provided modem, or are they
> both using a Comcast-provided modem/router? Is "Advanced Security" som
I have only experienced similar problems while running tor exit node, even with
very restricted exit policy. Allowing exit only to port X, and unable to
initiate connections to port Y (typically Y=HTTPS=443, of course X =/= Y).
Note that those problems are not Comcast's fault, although they do p
Hello,
It is a good sign that Comcast cares and wants to defend itself. Another
positive is that you did not try things like "tor is only for
criminals/terrorists".
As to the blog post you mention. (Note that to see the post one may need to
delete the trailing full stop from the url, the corre
Yes, I agree 100% with Danny's summary here, so I have to concede, I did not
found enough evidence that Comcast blocks connections *to* tor relays. I
apologize. Specifically, I did some tests with ronqtorrelays at risley.net ,
who is a Comcast Business customer, and he had no problem initiating
