 woody7Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA | reply to sonofjay
Re: Not happening on Earthlink Cable Customers you don't have use their dns servers do you?, I have been using "treewalk" (»ntcanuck.com/) for a long time and haven't had a problem. JMT
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| There's someone out there doing this for URLs without a domain name, though it doesn't seem to happen on all ISPs (I've seen it on Road Runner, Cox, Comcast and BellSouth for sure, and I think I've seen it on SBC/ATT). I first discovered it because of my employer's VPN - people try to access an internal site (no domain name, for example "http://homepage") while not on the VPN and get redirected to "Future home of .homepage information.com". I've tried this on my own machines with no VPN software installed and duplicated the results - basically any URL without a domain gets redirected instead of failing a DNS lookup, and the "information.com" page (IP always in the range 69.x.x.x) will pop up a couple more windows if popups are not blocked, at least one of which usually attempts a drive-by download. I'm really surprised I haven't seen this mentioned here as it started almost a year ago. |
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 HallPremium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
kudos:1 | reply to woody7
said by woody7:you don't have use their dns servers do you?, I have been using "treewalk" (» ntcanuck.com/) for a long time and haven't had a problem. Even TreeWalk has to get it's information from somewhere, so what DNS did you configure it to use ?? |
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different dns servers no you do not have to use their dns servers, there are public servers available, specifically 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.1, set them up on your pc and you should be fine. |
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Re: Not happening on Earthlink Cable Customers Just did another test. Created an SBC/ATT dialup connection (had DSL for 7 months, first time I've used the dialup!) to verify that I get redirected on this connection. Put "homepage" in the address bar in IE and got the information.com page (no "future home of" blurb this time) - resolved to 69.25.212.180. (First attempt it failed due to an earlier attempt to block the page - I had to rename my hosts file which was redirecting urlforwarding.domainsite.com, searchportal.information.com, and ppc-parked.domainsite.com to localhost). This was as much of the redirect as I have been able to trace. Since it occurs on many ISPs, you guys should be able to duplicate the redirect. |
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woody7Premium
join:2000-10-13
Torrance, CA | reply to Hall
Just check out the sitea and it explains how it works, I'm lame at trying to explain. You download and install their program and run it. but it seems to be working for me better than Elink's.....which I was having issues with.
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HallPremium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
kudos:1 | I use TreeWalk myself. I was asking *you* how you configured it. |
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