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misterxCharter are being amazing assholes.
Any of you who use Charter for your internets may have noticed that lately if you try to go to a website that doesn't exist, such as http://horkinforkin.com , instead of getting a normal error page you are redirected to the following crap instead: http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=horkinforkin.com
Problem is, the damage they have done to achieve this goes far deeper. They aren't just doing this for web stuff. Charter DNS servers, if queried for a domain name that it can't resolve to an IP address, will return false IP address information. For instance if I ping horkinforkin.com , it resolves horkinforkin.com to IP address 64.158.56.56.
Trying to do email or DNS diagnostics in this environment is driving me nuts.
I wouldn't even know what was going on if it wasn't for finding the following post when researching the bizarre DNS behavior I was seeing:
http://forums.etree.org/viewtopic.php?t=8697 (Near the bottom)
"PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:38 am
This is late, but I found this page on a Google search of 64.158.56.56 .
Your problem is this: Charter has begun to stink horribly. They set up their DNS servers such that, if they do not find a DNS record, they return 64.158.56.56 and 206.112.100.132, instead of returning NXDOMAIN, like it is supposed to do. They have set up a search results page on port 80 of those IP's. That way, if their servers don't find a domain name, they assume that you are using the web, not some other internet service (such as a torrent, remote desktop connection, SMTP, etc., etc. and route traffic for domains that should have returned NXDOMAIN to their own search site, which they can then advertise on and make money by messing up DNS service for their customers. This is currently messing up my internal DNS because my router is checking Charter's DNS before its own host records for some reason. This means that all computers inside my network return Charter's stupid search server instead of returning the correct address, because Charter returned an IP instead of NXDOMAIN, like it was supposed to."
What's more, Charter's DNS servers are for some reason failing to resolve the following rather important URLs:
sbl.spamhaus.org
list.dsbl.org
when other servers (such as DNSstuff.com) return proper and working DNS info for these domains. (and pings work too)
Any of you who use Charter for your internets may have noticed that lately if you try to go to a website that doesn't exist, such as http://horkinforkin.com , instead of getting a normal error page you are redirected to the following crap instead: http://www11.charter.net/search?qo=horkinforkin.com
Problem is, the damage they have done to achieve this goes far deeper. They aren't just doing this for web stuff. Charter DNS servers, if queried for a domain name that it can't resolve to an IP address, will return false IP address information. For instance if I ping horkinforkin.com , it resolves horkinforkin.com to IP address 64.158.56.56.
Trying to do email or DNS diagnostics in this environment is driving me nuts.
I wouldn't even know what was going on if it wasn't for finding the following post when researching the bizarre DNS behavior I was seeing:
http://forums.etree.org/viewtopic.php?t=8697 (Near the bottom)
"PostPosted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 12:38 am
This is late, but I found this page on a Google search of 64.158.56.56 .
Your problem is this: Charter has begun to stink horribly. They set up their DNS servers such that, if they do not find a DNS record, they return 64.158.56.56 and 206.112.100.132, instead of returning NXDOMAIN, like it is supposed to do. They have set up a search results page on port 80 of those IP's. That way, if their servers don't find a domain name, they assume that you are using the web, not some other internet service (such as a torrent, remote desktop connection, SMTP, etc., etc. and route traffic for domains that should have returned NXDOMAIN to their own search site, which they can then advertise on and make money by messing up DNS service for their customers. This is currently messing up my internal DNS because my router is checking Charter's DNS before its own host records for some reason. This means that all computers inside my network return Charter's stupid search server instead of returning the correct address, because Charter returned an IP instead of NXDOMAIN, like it was supposed to."
What's more, Charter's DNS servers are for some reason failing to resolve the following rather important URLs:
sbl.spamhaus.org
list.dsbl.org
when other servers (such as DNSstuff.com) return proper and working DNS info for these domains. (and pings work too)
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on 2007-05-01 05:08 pm (UTC)Didn't Verisign do something similar to the global DNS (or maybe just the .com domain) awhile back? They finally backed down. At least temporarily.
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on 2007-05-03 04:10 am (UTC)