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Vultr DPI?
Appears that Vultr are performing some level of DPI against traffic on UDP port 53.
DigitalOcean
Vultr
It seems here that minexmr is the keyword. Users have reported this issue whilst making outbound queries to external recursors and also when answering queries as a recursor.
Kudos to @Fusl for noticing this.
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Just tried to multiple dns servers from both NJ & Miami with the same results. As far as I can tell from a quick glance there's nothing in the ToS/AUP about traffic manipulation. Very worrying.
I'd suspect the ddos mitigation system rather than them deliberately targeting that keyword.
String match on UDP port 53 is not "DPI", it's one line in iptables. Prolly as simple in other platforms as well.
That said, Vultr is well-known to have little to no moral standards (see the $2.5 plan scam), so I totally would not put it past them to mess with your traffic arbitrarily.
I guess that is a possibility here, though my instance has no mitigation so I wouldn't expect them to be looking at my traffic.
I know Fusl mentioned she hasn't received any communication on the issue from Vultr when she put it to them.
You're bitter because you didn't get one. We got it.
Lucky you!
Whoever said it yesterday or day before was spot on. Everything @rm_ posts seems to have a thin veneer of humanity surrounding a seething rage.
Well, just hard code the IP, but it seems like you still cannot mine on these 2.5$ ones.
I got two
#SCAM!
Nope, active blacklisting: https://wiki.opennic.org/_media/abusive_isps/vultr.png
It's bad for anything DNS resolver related - we noticed this when our users complained about it.
... but it’s still available in a few locations (NJ, etc.)?
Yes. But this isn't mentioned on their pricing page. Odd!
It's a bit odd for them not to be transparent about it, what was their response when you opened a ticket?
I guess if you take a neutral view, they are most likely doing it to combat resource abuse ultimately, which I am thankful for as a customer.
I also have $2.5 server with them, it is doing nothing though.
1st-level support didn't even know this was a thing, trying to tell me that it's a firewall problem on my side.
At first glance, it appears you have a local firewall running that is filtering TCP 53:
We are not blocking outbound or inbound traffic over port 53 at this time. It is likely to be an issue with your OS firewall configuration. Please review your firewall configuration and revise as necessary.
We are seeing port 53 is firewalled, please open port 53 [...]
For security reasons [...]
12.4 generally permits this:
Ideally we complain in California as consumer protection rights are far more accessible; Vultr operates multiple CA locations so the moving of legal to Florida (23.1 - for whatever reason) is invalid, the service is provided inside CA (we have CA instances in use.).
@vultr I want my money back, not essentially for this censorship attempt but for:
Considering this is also in effect in EU locations, with at this time extremely negative public stance on censorship, you might want to consider what your users think about this situation once we get it far more public, or what business loss you can easily generate by such idiotic attempts to fix issues that are not yours, and that technically stupid and covered by lies of your own support.
Tl;dr: I explicitly reserve rights to any legal action concerning false information provided by your company due to possible malicious intent to continue operating this system without customer consent or information that it exists and how it operates. This includes the ability to subpoena customer support and other staff and question if they had knowledge of this system at the time of this ticket responses.
Going out by ticket later as well; still in EFF and other talks, but Sunday is lame for legal stuff outside of Israel.
well, based on that, I still think it is to combat abuse, lets be honest, you did not pick vultr to begin with due to their anti-censorship policies.
Yeah, lets be honest here, @fusl signed up for that premium RAID.
Francisco
ideally, you don't complain at all.
This is not odd, this is the entire point of the scam aforementioned. They "have" it in just two absolutely lesser interesting locations (to mark the tick box of "we have it"), then don't show that until you link your credit card and pay the initial deposit. Read mentions of @Vultr on Twitter, there's no shortage of people unhappy that they signed up and paid only to find out the $2.5 plan is not available in the location they want: example one, two, three, four. It appears like you can file a ticket and get a refund in such case, but they bank on that many/most will not bother, and will instead use the $5 plan "for now".
The whole $2.5 thing is just for bait and switch, and deceitful advertising.
And yes I can freely admit that I do bring this up in every instance where Vultr is mentioned, and will do so until the issue is resolved, i.e. until they state that the plan is location-limited on the pricing page, remove the plan, or make it available everywhere.
Why though, what do you gain?
genuine question, do you think they care?
There were many comments (also from me) regarding Vultr's $2.50 plan on LET earlier this year. People drew their own conclusions.
I pointed out that DO also requires you to sign up to see which plans are available, so Vultr isn't unique in this respect.
Yes, the availability of the $2.50 plan is limited, but I don't see what's really wrong with this. Can't a provider decide to limit the availability of a given plan, for whatever reason? Yeah, I agree that it's not so great for all of the people who would like to get a $2.50 plan but haven't yet managed to get one (though two locations are currently available), but it's not the end of the world.
@DaveA care to address any of the bull's digestive emittance being tossed about?
I found mine deleted for no reason. The staff said that the instance never exists, but it listed in the invoice. haha
Unless it's a criminal complaint (what is the crime here?) you agreed that all disputes would be resolved in Florida.
One thing I have learned from visiting lowendtalk over the years is that there is a lot of lawyers on here .....
Law school is free now. All you do is hunt Wikipedia for a single legal entry that matches your opinions and boom: You are now a lawyer.
IANAL has been superseded by I<3ANAL
I know you like buttsex, but please, contain yourself my friend