Who does cox redirect to?  I get the bing search page, and if it is not
found (i.e. truely a bad search) then BING gives me a not found page


On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Joseph Sinclair
<plug-discussion@stcaz.net>wrote:

> Eric Shubert wrote:
> >
> > Could you elaborate about the redirect-failure-to-ads trick? I don't
> > know what you mean by that.
> >
> > Also, do you happen to know if Qwest is also doing this?
> >
> > Thanks again.
>
> Most ISP and commercial DNS providers, when a domain name isn't found, do
> not return the mandated a NXDOMAIN response.
> Instead they return the IP address of a server that just dumps a page full
> of ads based on the (presumably mistyped) domain name.
> The immediate problem is that a completely innocent typo can then result in
> ads for almost anything (which can be *really* bad if a kid is doing the
> typing).
>
> It's a dirty trick to try to turn DNS into a profit center, and I find it
> completely despicable.
> DNS has to trustworthy or the whole trust model of the net fails, and any
> service that's willing to change NXDOMAIN responses for profit could just as
> easily start redirecting other traffic for even more profit (imagine if
> www.gnu.org got redirected to a MS anti-FOSS site when accessed from a
> Windows machine).
>
> I don't know if QWest is doing that, but I would be mildly surprised if
> they aren't.
>
>
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