After 439 comments on Slashdot, and not a single person being able to replicate the results here or on slashdot, I think it's time to kill this story as inaccurate.
Edit: even the original author of the article is claiming "it doesn't happen anymore." It's probably an issue with his testing/setup rather than comcast.
I agree, but I can't delete the story anymore (there's no link).
I hadn't seen the Netalyzer before - damn impressive. Among the impressive results was a "Minor aberration: Your computer's clock is 17ms too fast."
Can anyone actually reproduce this? According to numerous comments on the /. article (including one from a Comcast representative) this is not true.
I'm a comcast customer who uses opendns, and I could not reproduce this behavior.
Netalyzer gave a message about port 53, but I'm clearly still using openDNS, so I dunno.
People believed it because it sounds like something Comcast would actually do.
I got this: Direct UDP access to remote DNS servers (port 53) is allowed.
I read through a lot of the comments on this story, and it appears that it's been problematic to replicate.