[100675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hey, SiteFinder is back, again...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Sun Nov 4 13:57:31 2007
Date: Sun, 4 Nov 2007 17:29:26 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: Christopher Morrow <christopher.morrow@gmail.com>,
nanog list
<nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0711041143020.4901@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007 11:52:11 -0500 (EST)
Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>
> And for all the other non-Web protocols which get confused, can treat
> that artificially generated crap/answers like NXDOMAIN. Yes, I know
> it sounds like the evil bit; but if these folks are so convinced
> people really want this crap/address correction...
>
They're not convinced their customers want it; they simply say that
publicly. They're convinced that (a) they're going to make money from
it from equally sleazy advertisers/marketdroids, and (b) their
customers will be either too clueless or too sheeplike to do anything.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
