Heh, I'm guilty. I own: * OT VHS (extra long play recorded all three movies onto one tape from a TBS broadcast or something) * OT VHS (Black Box set) * OT VCD (Special Edition from Malaysia in a box set) * OT LaserDiscs (Purchased separately) * OT Definitive Edition LaserDisc box set * RotJ Special Edition LaserDisc (sealed) * OT DVD set with Special Edition and Theatrical cut versions included * TPM on DVD * AotC on DVD * RotS on DVD * OT .mp4 rips I made of my Theatrical cut DVDs * Star Wars bonus materials disc I would still totally buy it on Blu-Ray, but I'm disappointed in the lack of the Theatrical cut.

Interestingly enough, Gmail doesn't use Postini unless you purchase Google Apps Premier and enable Postini for GApps Gmail. Gmail by itself uses its own independently developed anti-spam technology. This is straight from the horse's mouth @ Google Enterprise Support.

I wonder why I wasn't able to contact my netcat "DNS Server" then? No firewall or hosts restrictions on the "DNS Server" and another non-Comcast server can hit it just fine.

*shrugs* it seems like I'm fine then - just something else flaky going on.

Hmm, it seems I'm one of maybe (just maybe...) two people who report 53 being re-routed. Perhaps it's a fluke on my end as I've been having VERY bad issues with the signal cutting out for hours at a time this week.

I think I'm in agreement that the original article may not have been factual. I'll re-run my findings tonight (which is typically when the connection is most stable) and see what happens.

I can verify this is happening in Lynnwood, WA - just north of Seattle - on my Comcast residential connection. First port 25 is blocked, now 53 is being rerouted? GD Comcast is a bunch of toolsheds.

My working third party server connected to the dummy DNS server just fine, while my home Comcast connected PCs couldn't. Tested in Windows 2008, Gentoo and Windows XP @ home - same results on all 3.

Webalyzer results: here

This seems to me to be midichlorians. Scientists have discovered the Force!