[TriLUG] OT: Hijacked Browser Typos

Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail.com
Wed Apr 18 15:56:30 EDT 2007


Yes, I saw that.  That's not what I was replying to, though.
You said it might be "more effort" than he wanted to do and
I was pointing out that it was no effort at all.

Cheers,
Tanner

On 4/18/07, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> In a different reply he said he didn't feel like that would work for his
> situation.
>
> DS
>
> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> > Effort?  It's dead simple.  In Red Hat based distros, back when I
> > used them, there was even an "caching-server-x.y.noarch.rpm"
> > package that would do _all_ the work for you.  A quick search
> > for a similar Debian style package doesn't turn up anything.
> > Perhaps someone else can post about that.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Tanner
> >
> > On 4/18/07, Dave Sorenson <dave at logicalgeek.com> wrote:
> >> sure, but that might be more effort than he wants to do...
> >>
> >> DS
> >>
> >> Steve Litt wrote:
> >> > Wouldn't just outfitting his box with a caching DNS referring to
> >> the root DNS
> >> > servers fix this problem?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks
> >> >
> >> > SteveT
> >> >
> >> > On Wednesday 18 April 2007 08:59, Dave Sorenson wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Earthlink has set their DNS to return the squatter page to unknown
> >> >> requests like verisign tried to do last year. It breaks a lot of
> >> >> anti-spam stuff as a side "benefit" too.
> >> >>
> >> >> I'd try changing who you are using for DNS lookups. I have a
> >> meeting to
> >> >> go sleep through or I'd apply Goggle-fu, but I seem to recall
> >> >> alternative DNS services having been discussed here before. You might
> >> >> try a search on the archive.
> >> >>
> >> >> Dave
> >> >>
> >> >> Scott Chilcote wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> J.C. Jones wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> What browser are you using?
> >> >>>>
> >> >>>> jcj
> >> >>>>
> >> >>> Usually Firefox.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> The same thing happens in IE6, Konqueror, Mozilla, lynx, and
> >> links on
> >> >>> various Linux and Windows op systems though.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> --
> >> >>> Scott C.
> >> >>>
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