GeekGirl1
The Medium IS the Message
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join:2007-01-28
Morrisville, PA
| Since when did Verizon start Advertising on busted URLs?
I took a guess at entering a URL which bounced. Lo and behold, I get a Verizon Landing Page  .
Type in "spaceflightdaily.com" from the address bar (it mapped to »www.spaceflightdaily.com/ ). The landing page had ads for space flight and airline tickets. Nice try.
It might be experimental, as a 2nd try resulted in a "cannot find server" with a partial "Yahoo search results".
I kept trying and some results redirected to Google, which is my default search engine. Yahoo is not. |
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stu28bu
join:2004-11-01
Carrollton, TX
| They aren't advertising on another site, they have detected that you typed in a bad URL and because you're using the Actiontec router, they have redirected you to a Verizon search page.
More info @ »Verizon DNS Redirection 'Service' Spreads and go here - »netservices.verizon.net/portal/l···uct=fios for instructions on how to disable it. |
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stu28bu
join:2004-11-01
Carrollton, TX | reply to GeekGirl1
My bad it affects all routers, not just the actiontec. The way to fix it is changing the DNS servers provided by Verizon. I'm not using the Actiontec and just got it for the first time. |
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GeekGirl1
The Medium IS the Message
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join:2007-01-28
Morrisville, PA
4 edits | Thanks for the info. Looks like it's a hot topic. I'm in the Philly area, which is one of the areas affected. OK, I went through their convoluted instructions, with some mods:
1. My Primary and Secondary DNS servers were set to 0.0.0.0, so I went into the System Monitoring -> Router Status to get the DNS server IPs. That means the DNS server addresses are static. I hope that doesn't cause any problems.
2. Applied the changes as indicated, which reset the DNS servers.
3. I also rebooted the router (Advanced -> "Yes" to "Are you stupid" question -> Reboot router).
NOTHING changed. I still get the landing page. Primary and seconder DNS servers have the last octet (that's French for 8-bits) set to 12.
It seems a bit flaky, as I lost the broadband connection a few times while I was trying things out.
Update / clarification 12-Nov-07: The last byte should be 14, not 12, for the opt-out to work. |
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noping
no route to host
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join:2007-01-09
 ·Verizon FIOS
4 edits | Halfway down this thread: »[northeast] DNS hijacking in effect (new)
said by KCrimson  :I think the directions that FiOS is giving to change the default DNS server are flawed. I didn't get any change until I edited the Broadband (in my case /MOCA, in others /Ethernet depending on how your router was hooked up) setting, NOT the Home/Office DNS setting, as the directions say. You may want to consider using an alternate DNS (4.2.2.1-4.2.2.6) instead - I found the Verizon "opt-out" DNS (71.252.0.14) to be slow for some reason.
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"Way I remember it, albatross was a ship's good luck, 'til some idiot killed it." |
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GeekGirl1
The Medium IS the Message
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join:2007-01-28
Morrisville, PA
1 edit | Thanks! That worked. Interesting, as that's the exact same spot I had to use when adding a port forwarding rule to close Port 4567 (different topic).
The Network (Home / Office) section also had a slightly different menu for the DNS servers. Maybe that's why it was all zeros. The Broadband Connection (Coax) is the entry point for my router.
I'll take a look at those alternate DNS servers. BTW, this would be a good time to backup the router config file (before you do this mod and just after). |
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