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Authored by: sympleko on Oct 28, '05 10:08:20AM

This service--redirecting domain name service lookups to a web page rather than returning a not found message--is against DNS protocol. It breaks applications which decide whether a domain name is in use by doing DNS lookups (such as Safari!). ICANN and VeriSign (one of the companies that started the practice, and the organization which keeps nameservice information for .com and .net) have been in a bitter duel of lawsuits about it for the past two years. It was just settled, in fact.

The upshot of the settlement is that organizations which do domain name service will have to get changes to the implementation of DNS approved by ICANN. So this kind of thing shouldn't be happening suddenly.



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Authored by: dhirsch226 on Oct 28, '05 02:56:56PM

I'm glad it's prohibited, but that doesn't change the fact that it's happening to me. I get it when I'm connected from home on my Comcast cable account. It's been going on for about three weeks or so. Sucks for me, but this thing helps.

(I tried doing the same thing with GreaseMonkey and Firefox, but the best I could do was kludgy and slow, because GreaseMonkey does not, as far as I know, let you munge URLs, only pages).
-Dave



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Authored by: CaptainQueeg on Oct 31, '05 11:10:49AM
This broken DNS response seems to be unique to OSX for me.

From a linux box here at home:

slick@venus:~$ curl schwab
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'schwab'

From an OSX box, same network:


minime:~ slick$ curl schwab
<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
<h2>Object moved to <a href="http://www.netidentity.com/?mp=DomainRedirect&d=schwab">here</a>.</h2>
</body></html>
Anybody have any insight on why OSX is redirecting to netidentity.com ?

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Authored by: jdos2 on Nov 02, '05 06:02:47AM

I'd have to wonder who you are using as a DNS server- the Mindspring services don't allow me to resolve "schwab" with a redirect.

This is mostly an annoyance, and is indeed not appropriate root behavior, but it was worse a couple years ago when Network Solutions implemented it and broke surviving Windows 95 clients that ask for servers with a .com extension first... Bad Things happened.

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