DNS and nxdomain hijacking

Wed Nov 6 01:19:01 UTC 2013

Just as a side note, I don't think MS supports NXDOMAIN redirections yet, which is rather surprising.
Given I highly doubt anyone is using this external resolvers, which redirection is usually for.

Sincerely,

Eric Tykwinski
TrueNet, Inc.
P: 610-429-8300
F: 610-429-3222

On Nov 5, 2013, at 7:57 PM, Phil Bedard <bedard.phil at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 11/5/13, 7:25 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Warren Bailey <
>> wbailey at satelliteintelligencegroup.com> wrote:
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>>> I've noticed a lot more nxdomain redirects on providers (cox, uverse,
>>> tmo,
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>> I believe these ISPs have been servicing a mucked up recursive DNS like
>> this for quite a while.
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> I think every major residential ISP in the US has been doing this for 5+
> years now.  I worked at one provider who made a pretty decent chunk of
> change off the monthly ad revenue and that was 6 years ago.  People typo a
> lot of URLs.  
> 
> Charter (my current ISP) does let you disable it via the web.
> 
> Phil 
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