Installfest this Saturday - PLUG website dead?

[Brian Cluff]

Your browser should be giving you an address not found message.  If bing 
is factoring into it, then your dns is being hijacked, or you have some 
sort of plugin that is redirecting your results.

Attached is what I get when I try putting in something with a bad address.

Brian Cluff

On 02/28/2010 03:24 PM, Steve Phariss wrote:
> 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 at stcaz.net <mailto:plug-discussion at 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 <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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