[GTALUG] TekSavvy or Rogers blocking apt user agent

James Knott james.knott at jknott.net
Mon Nov 4 17:14:30 EST 2019


What does Wireshark show?  That article shows "Connection reset by peer".

On 2019-11-04 04:13 PM, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote:
> 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
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