whoa! manish point this Tom Foremski article out to me. wow.
It seems that Cox and its vendor Authentium may be blocking craigslist to some homes. i hope this is just an accident on Cox’s part and that they remedy it quickly … as this is really troubling …
as you know, the Rapleaf team are really big criagslist fans and it would be tragic if some homes were not prevented access to such a vibrant and helpful community…
posted by auren
[06.08.06]
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June 9th, 2006 at 1:44 am
i highly doubt this is an accident. COX is trying some new things with is classifieds, a huge revenue source btw.
They “conveniently” placed the blame on some obscure security firm and its software. Tell me what piece of software can “accidently” block a top 50 internet destination? And how can that bug not be fixed months later?
June 18th, 2006 at 10:30 am
Manish, the problem is in part on craigslist.org’s side–they send a window size of 0 on their initial TCP connection (which you can verify yourself if you know how to use an ethernet sniffer), which means “send traffic as slowly as possible.”
There is a bug in the Cox software firewall provided by Authentium, and Authentium has provided a beta that fixes it since about two weeks after the problem was first discovered.
The “Save the Internet” folks and Matt Stoller at MyDD have been dishonestly claiming that this is a Cox “blacklist” even after they’ve had all the facts.
More details here.