[119486] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What DNS Is Not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Palmer)
Fri Nov 20 09:41:28 2009
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:40:40 +1100
From: Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@hezmatt.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:49:14AM +1030, Andrew Cox wrote:
> As a follow up to this, one of the large Australian ISP's has just
> introduced a DNS redirection "service" for all home customers.
>
> "/The BigPond-branded landing page provides BigPond customers with
> organic search results, sponsored links, display advertisements and
> intelligent recommendations, all derived from the invalid domain input -
> much more helpful and friendly than a nasty 404 page error./"
*Facepalm* Maybe my browser's just doing something wrong, but when was the
last time you got a "nasty 404 page error" for an NXDOMAIN response?
- Matt
*mumblemumble*journalists*mumblemumble*
