[37848] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Big Red"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Halmu)
Fri May 25 00:03:40 2001
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 21:45:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Halmu <mitch@netside.net>
To: "Tim Langdell, PhD" <langdell@technologist.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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It is probably a web server configuration for default error handling.
Look for the following:
<LOCATION /*>
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.bigred.com
</LOCATION>
--Mitch
NetSide
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Tim Langdell, PhD wrote:
>
> Has anyone heard of "bigred.com"? A client has suddenly discovered that all
> of its browser queries that do not resolve (www.rubbishcharacters.com for
> e.g.) get diverted to the BigRed search engine web site. No one in the
> company is aware of having installed anything that could have intentionally
> have caused this effect for DNS failures. Anyone got any ideas what is going
> on here? Is it a known problem? Viral or otherwise?
>
> T.L.
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