[91986] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Earthlink playing Sitefinder
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (william(at)elan.net)
Mon Aug 28 10:44:48 2006
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:44:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: "william(at)elan.net" <william@elan.net>
To: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200608281420.KAA24276@sigma.nrk.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, David Lesher wrote:
> FYI:
>
> I see discussion on DSLReports that Earthlink is deploying a
> Sitefinder-ish DNS scheme. It bounces people to a "barefruit.com"
> that then sprays ads back at you.
Doesn't surprise me that Earthlink has been bought off yet again
to break dns for their users. If you remember it happened before
when they were bought off by New.net and was (still is?) largest
ISP not using ICANN-maintained dns root.
--
William Leibzon
Elan Networks
william@elan.net
