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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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Use PithHelmet to allow simple URL typing
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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