[GTALUG] TekSavvy or Rogers blocking apt user agent

[David Thornton]

I've seen this before on a fortigate firewall.

The FW will detect "apt" as app:XMLRPC rather than app:HTTP for the
purposes of "Application Detection" and if the "allow port 80 rules" is
infact an "Allow only app:HTTP on port 80" rule , then XMLRPC over port 80
is disallowed.

David

On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at 4:13 PM Jamon Camisso via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
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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