[TriLUG] Frontier doing packet inspection?

[William Sutton]

Could they be doing apache rewrites?

William Sutton

On Sat, 7 Dec 2013, Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:

> This morning, instead of getting a 404 page not found, I got a "helpful" page 
> from Frontier (my phone company) saying that they'd entered into a 
> partnership with yahoo to provide alternate results for the search whenever I 
> got a "404 page not found". Below this notice was a google type list of 
> suggested urls to click on. I could click on a link to turn it off and I 
> could also go to my "preferences" page, which I didn't know I had. I thought 
> I had a pipe to the internet and other than their DNS (which I don't use) 
> Frontier was not involved (presumably I can have e-mail with them but I don't 
> use it).
>
> How does Frontier even know I got a "404 page not found" without doing packet 
> inspection?
>
> Joe
>
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