[166722] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS and nxdomain hijacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Phil Bedard)
Tue Nov 5 19:58:16 2013
Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 19:57:59 -0500
From: Phil Bedard <bedard.phil@gmail.com>
To: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>,
Warren Bailey <wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAAAwwbUvN4WB5awfV=v3MZ0K+YxONCvqB=7Gq7iWwbiGUyK8Bw@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11/5/13, 7:25 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Warren Bailey <
>wbailey@satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
>
>
>> I've noticed a lot more nxdomain redirects on providers (cox, uverse,
>>tmo,
>
>
>I believe these ISPs have been servicing a mucked up recursive DNS like
>this for quite a while.
I think every major residential ISP in the US has been doing this for 5+
years now. I worked at one provider who made a pretty decent chunk of
change off the monthly ad revenue and that was 6 years ago. People typo a
lot of URLs.
Charter (my current ISP) does let you disable it via the web.
Phil
