GlennAllen
join:2002-11-17
Richmond, VA
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Re: I drop them over that and the rip-off
TreeWalk is great; I've been using it for quite a few years. Simply installing it, however, won't help someone much with this kind of stuff. TreeWalk will simply cache your successful lookups so that if/when your regular DNS server availability becomes "problematic", you'll still be able to find the sites you've visited before. New lookups will still go out to the next level DNS (the default being whatever you were using when you installed TreeWalk), and, as you'd expect, unsuccessful lookups--which is what you'd have here--won't be cached. Now, you could both install TreeWalk and point it to a higher level--or "real"--DNS to bypass DNS "redirection" sites and to avoid other non-spec DNS problems.
I don't know... does it really matter? If they're redirecting only browser requests, probably not. If they're screwing up non-browser requests, then probably so.
Either way, using something like TreeWalk is usually a good idea.
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