[Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?

Mon Sep 7 19:07:09 CDT 2009

Wow... I'm glad I'm on DSL, even though 1.5M seems a tad on the slow
side these days.  Last weekend a couple of Mediacom salespeople were
working the neighbourhood  (one of them was even on a segway, but he
talked on a cell phone the whole time).  I was actually thinking about
looking into switching back to see if I could save any money but not
if they go messing with me like that.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Jonathan C.
Bailey<jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us> wrote:
> Nope...
>
> Just tried to proxy with Ziproxy via a VPS I have.. It's on an uncommon port (randomly chosen), and requires HTTP basic auth, but Mediacom still fsck'd with it..
>
> -Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Josh More" <morej at alliancetechnologies.net>
> To: cialug at cialug.org, jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us
> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 6:15:02 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia
> Subject: RE: [Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?
>
> Is it fixed by using a web proxy?
>
> -Josh
>
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> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "Jonathan C. Bailey" <jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us>
> Date: 09/9/7 18:11
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Subj: Re: [Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?
> I knew that from before and have been using OpenDNS for quite a while..
> The problem now is that they seem to be doing it at a higher level than
> DNS..
>
> -Jon
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "randy rote" <randy.rote at gmail.com>
> To: "Central Iowa Linux Users Group" <cialug at cialug.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 7, 2009 6:08:16 PM GMT -05:00 Colombia
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?
>
> I've had problems with that for a while now. I started using OpenDNS
> rather than trusting their servers.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Jonathan C. Bailey" <jbailey at co.marshall.ia.us>
>
> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 18:01:10
> To: cialug<cialug at cialug.org>
> Subject: [Cialug] Mediacom fscking with web access?
>
>
> It seems that Mediacom has taken their "redirection" service to a new
> level.. Now 404s (depending on the site) also go to their damn search
> service!!! Can anyone else confirm this?
>
> example: http://timesrepublican.com/thisdoesnotexist/
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Also...
>
> jcbailey at hybrid:~$ telnet eztv.it 80
> Trying 212.63.212.35...
> Connected to eztv.it.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /shows/add/16167/ HTTP/1.1
> Host: eztv.it
> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre)
> Gecko/20090818 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.3pre
> Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
> Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
> Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
> Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
> Keep-Alive: 300
> Connection: keep-alive
>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>
> <HTML><script>window.location='http://assist.mediacomcable.com/mediacomassist_pnf/dnsassist/main/?domain='+escape(window.location);</script><body>The
> Search Guide redirection service has been enabled to provide helpful
> searches from browser queries. You entered a non-existent url and your
> browser attempted to redirect you with Javascript. To enable this please
> update your browser preferences. <a
> href='http://search.mediacomcable.com/prefs.php'>To turn off this
> feature please click this here</a></body></HTML>
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> jcbailey at hybrid:~$ telnet eztv.it 80
> Trying 212.63.212.35...
> Connected to eztv.it.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> GET /shows/add/16167/ HTTP/1.1
> Host: eztv.it
>
> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Length: 345
> Date: Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:50:59 GMT
> Server: lighttpd/1.5.0
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>         "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
>  <head>
>  <title>404 - Not Found</title>
>  </head>
>  <body>
>  <h1>404 - Not Found</h1>
>  </body>
> </html>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> -Jon
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Jeff Ollie