[98792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nachman Yaakov Ziskind)
Fri Aug 17 12:45:38 2007
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:26:24 -0400
From: Nachman Yaakov Ziskind <awacs@ziskind.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Reply-To: awacs@ziskind.us
In-Reply-To: <200708171612.l7HGCfo6032141@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote (on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 12:12:41PM -0400):
> >
> >
> > bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote (on Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:26:43AM +0000):
> > >
> > > On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:41:35PM -0700, Jeff Shultz wrote:
> > > >
> > > > leeyao@trashymail.com wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >Hi, I try adding google.com to my dns server to get more visitors
> > > > >but google.com still show search engine.
> >
> > If you want a serious answer to your question, it's because your
> > customers are not using your DNS servers to resolve queries (bully for
> > them, I say).
> >
> > The next (evil) step that you would have to take would be to intercept
> > outbound DNS queries (or maybe just the replies, even more evil) and
> > replace the answers with the ones you want. There are lots reasons not
> > to do this.
> >
> > The (slighty less evil, IMHO) other option would be for you to keep
> > track of google.com's ips (not so easy, as you'll see once you try) and
> > intercept web requests to those ips and replace them with your own.
> >
> This comes from an "Attorney and Counselor-at-Law", and without
> a legal disclaimer? I'm shocked.
Most electronic disclaimers aren't worth the paper they're printed
upon. :-)
> I'm also shocked someone would actually advocate this. I'm
> sure Google wouldn't be too happy to find out about it.
I kinda hoped that anyone reading the above would NOT get the impression
I'm advocating this. I'm not (unless you're a country with population
exceeding one billion, in which case you write your own rules. :-)
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