[100672] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Nov 4 08:34:11 2007
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <75cb24520711032252g4a282d05u56d5e235c679f97b@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 08:32:25 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Nov 4, 2007, at 1:52 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> On 11/3/07, Allan Liska <allan@allan.org> wrote:
>>
>> I know this is just anecdotal, but I have Verizon FIOS in Northern
>> Virginia and I have not seen sitefinder pop up. I just verified
>> with a
>> few sites to make sure.
>
> http://www.irbs.net/internet/nanog/0607/0139.html
>
> oops, I was right (kinda).
Verizon != VeriSign, despite what people think.
A single provider doing this is not equivalent to the root servers
doing it. You can change providers, you can't change "." in DNS.
Plus lots of providers do this, in the US and abroad.
Lastly, it's trivial to get around, unless your provider is
transparently intercepting / redirecting port 53.
--
TTFN,
patrick
