[TriLUG] OT: Hijacked Browser Typos

Dave Sorenson dave at logicalgeek.com
Wed Apr 18 15:48:30 EDT 2007


In a different reply he said he didn't feel like that would work for his 
situation.

DS

Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> Effort?  It's dead simple.  In Red Hat based distros, back when I
> used them, there was even an "caching-server-x.y.noarch.rpm"
> package that would do _all_ the work for you.  A quick search
> for a similar Debian style package doesn't turn up anything.
> Perhaps someone else can post about that.
>
> Cheers,
> Tanner
>
> On 4/18/07, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
>> sure, but that might be more effort than he wants to do...
>>
>> DS
>>
>> Steve Litt wrote:
>> > Wouldn't just outfitting his box with a caching DNS referring to 
>> the root DNS
>> > servers fix this problem?
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > SteveT
>> >
>> > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 08:59, Dave Sorenson wrote:
>> >
>> >> Earthlink has set their DNS to return the squatter page to unknown
>> >> requests like verisign tried to do last year. It breaks a lot of
>> >> anti-spam stuff as a side "benefit" too.
>> >>
>> >> I'd try changing who you are using for DNS lookups. I have a 
>> meeting to
>> >> go sleep through or I'd apply Goggle-fu, but I seem to recall
>> >> alternative DNS services having been discussed here before. You might
>> >> try a search on the archive.
>> >>
>> >> Dave
>> >>
>> >> Scott Chilcote wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> J.C. Jones wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> What browser are you using?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> jcj
>> >>>>
>> >>> Usually Firefox.
>> >>>
>> >>> The same thing happens in IE6, Konqueror, Mozilla, lynx, and 
>> links on
>> >>> various Linux and Windows op systems though.
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Scott C.
>> >>>
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