[TriLUG] OT: Hijacked Browser Typos

William Sutton william at trilug.org
Wed Apr 18 16:21:33 EDT 2007


Unless you have observed behavior I haven't, Tanner doesn't troll.

-- 
William Sutton


On Wed, 18 Apr 2007, Dave Sorenson wrote:

> Technically you are correct. He "could" have set it up as you suggested, 
> that would have been easy. What validates my statement is with his 
> requirements he would have needed to tweak it more than a standard out 
> of the box configuration. Thats what I meant about more effort than he 
> wanted to do.
> 
> So we are both right unless you are trolling.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > Yes, I saw that.  That's not what I was replying to, though.
> > You said it might be "more effort" than he wanted to do and
> > I was pointing out that it was no effort at all.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> >
> > On 4/18/07, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> >> 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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