[AusNOG] Telstra redirecting failed DNS lookups

[Paul Foote]

All that's left for them to complete the "404" strategy is to put
transparent proxies in place that redirect on real 404's :P

Did nobody learn the lessons from when Verisign did this with .com ? baah.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Kim Davies <kim at cynosure.com.au> wrote:

> Quoting Tom Wright on Friday November 20, 2009:
> |
> http://www.crn.com.au/News/160923,bigpond-redirects-typos-to-unethical-branded-search-page.aspx
>
> Aside from the distaste of the concept in general, BigPond is quoted as
> saying:
>
>   "BigPond Broadband customers from today will experience less keyboard
>   anguish with our new DNS redirection application. Typos can happen
>   at any time. It's frustrating when you get an MS Internet Explorer
>   Live Search page with suggestions from a mistyped URL. It's even more
>   annoying when you get an unfriendly "404" page error message," the
>   letter said.
>
>   "The BigPond-branded landing page provides BigPond customers with
>   organic search results, sponsored links, display advertisements and
>   intelligent recommendations, all derived from the invalid domain input -
>   much more helpful and friendly than a nasty 404 page error."
>
> When would you ever get a 404 error for a non-existent domain? If they
> are doing NXDOMAIN redirection it will stop exactly zero 404 errors
> appearing for BigPond customers.
>
> kim
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