Re: Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

>     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 <http://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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