[GTALUG] TekSavvy or Rogers blocking apt user agent

[Jamon Camisso]

Well this is a new low:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1185612/apt-get-stuck-on-waiting-for-headers/1185713

Mind-boggling that it is/was even an issue at an ISP & HTTP level.

Either they have a giant whitelist of browser agents to maintain, or a
blacklist to update and added apt to it.

In either case, they're looking at HTTP traffic and acting on it directly.

Still an issue for anyone?

Jamon