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Re: Earthlink playing Sitefinder

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Chadwick)
Mon Aug 28 10:54:03 2006

Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:53:29 -0700
From: Jeremy Chadwick <nanog@jdc.parodius.com>
To: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 10:20:50AM -0400, David Lesher wrote:
> 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.

The news article itself:
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/77566

The actual discussion thread, which has applicable details:
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16763566

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