Beating Comcast's Sandvine On Linux With Iptables

HiroDeckard writes "Multiple sites reported a while ago that Comcast was using Sandvine to do tcp packet resets to throttle BitTorrent connections of their users. This practice may be a thing of the past as it's been found a simple rule in the Linux firewall, iptables, can simply just block their reset packets, returning your BitTorrent back to normal speeds and allowing you to once again connect to all your seeds and peer. If blocking the tcp packet resets becomes a common practice, on and off of Linux, it'll be interesting to see the next move in the cat-and-mouse game between customers and service providers, and who controls that bandwidth."Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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domain name is reolaced with IP within email address

Please, help! when I am sending email out it comes back to root account and within the sender's email address instead of  my domain name it shows my IP address(ex:   from offers@263.165.1.4    instead of     offers@advantage.com). thnks

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