Vultr DPI?

Fusl

seanho said: [...]

Yes, that would definitely allow people that want to CPU-mine XMR or other cryptocurrencies on their Vultr servers but doesn't help in my case as my Vultr instances do resolve DNS records themself. I'm actually able to tell the DNS resolver software that I'm using that it should re-route specific DNS queries to other nearby servers outside of the Vultr group but Vultr's transparency in this case is the worst I've ever seen and for this reason don't want to give me a list of names I can reroute to solve this.

angstrom

@Fusl said:
@Kris you really seem to be some special kind of "I have nothing to hide and don't give a shit about net neutrality" kiddie, right? I mostly actually don't care that they are blocking traffic, but they do not allow customers to opt out from this or give customers a list of domains they block, that's everything I'm asking for and is not really going to cause issues for their infrastructure either. They have zero transparency over this towards their customers and god knows what else they are doing just to "protect their infrastructure"? Port-mirror to NSA? I'm even willing to sign a NDA if they would just give me the information I am asking for but they seemingly care far less for their clients than their infrastructure which seemingly means that they do not give a crap about their customers. They pretty much have two possible options: Keep using their DPI and lose customers (=less revenue) or stop using their DPI and get more customers (=more revenue)?

Although I tend to agree with you in principle, this really does appear to be more a question of Vutr's protecting their infrastructure than of net neutrality. If Vultr were blocking (e.g.) pornhub.com, then it would much more clearly be a question of net neutrality, but since they're blocking some obscure mining domain that is arguably harmful to their infrastructure, I guess that I'd be willing to grant them the benefit of the doubt that they're blocking this domain in order to protect their infrastructure and not because of some whimsical desire to prevent users from accessing certain content stored on that site. (But, yes, this is a question of trust.)

Kris

AnthonySmith said: They might lose a handful due to this, however, if they successfully stop people abusing resources they may retain far more.

This, Vultr doesn't give a shit. Probably blocked after too much abuse on hypervisors. Now the casual mining newbies with 1 poorly translated tutorial aren't an issue.

Again, don't like it? Don't use them.

Sorry to rustle ya jimmies Fusl

Kris

Fusl said: @Kris you really seem to be some special kind of "I have nothing to hide and don't give a shit about net neutrality" kiddie, right?

Uhh? Go take your meds.

I'm the realistic type who can put together why this block was put into place and that you are an extreme edge-case of a user who is performing forward DNS lookups. You wanna run that service? Go run it somewhere where mining and other AUP violations aren't prevalent.

I helped run some open resolvers, but not stupid enough to try to go to war with a $2.50/month VPS provider because they won't give me a precise list of proprietary domains they block for purposes of stopping resource abuse.

I'll keep an eye out for your case in Florida PACER !