Thanks for all the responses. ------ AirVPN seems to solve a most if not all of the filtering / blocking issues. ( Don't try their pre-built client / PATHs are wrong. ) ------
"emerge-webrsync" was setup with GPG signature checking. What the ISP is doing looks to be ?attaching? / ?embeding? a "process", that attempts to execute on my machine. What it did was corrupt ebuilds/metadata/hashes while syncing the local tree. This command would crash, no error, no output, every single time : "emerge -pv --update --newuse --tree --deep --with-bdeps=y @world" They obviously didn't achieve what they wanted. From then on, the HTTP request made by "emerge-webrsync" was blocked one way. My Gentoo box was able to talk AT Gentoo's webrsync servers. Didn't receive anything back from the servers. ( all packets dropped? ) ------ Converted to "rsync" for using "emerge --sync" instead. "emerge --sync" complained about having to "clean up the mess" after the VPN was running. The "clean up" seems to have succeeded. ------ Will act on the ( lawyer, deposit ) suggestions. And a new e-mail provider. This may sound screwy ... with the VPN, the web browser and web sites are working/responding so much better. Corbin
