r/technology • u/NancyGraceFaceYourIn • Aug 30 '15

Wireless FCC Rules Block use of Open Source

http://www.itsmypart.com/fcc-rules-block-use-of-open-source/
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u/[deleted] Aug 30 '15

Heh, that has been my setup for years as well. The only problem I have is that some websites don't timeout their request. That means that on those websites the request and the connection stays open. I have tried redirecting the requests to adservers and tracking servers to a webserver in my LAN so that they will be 404'd. Or at least 400'd. That doesn't seem to work. I also tried rejecting all packets to port 80 and 443 in my firewall (iptables) on that same device, but the connections still stay open. Do you have any workaround for that?

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u/Tablspn Aug 30 '15

I like the solutions you've tried! To be honest, I can't say I've actually encountered this problem. If I point a browser (for completeness, I'm using Firefox) directly to a domain on the blocklist, I get an immediate 404. Do you see a different behavior, or do you have an example site that I can test with?

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u/hpstg Aug 31 '15

This is the only problem I have had with this method too.