Re: Road Runner redirecting in Road Runner http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20444869 en Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:27:22 EDT Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:27:22 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20501179 zoomer : I ditched opendns after a few weeks. While it was slightly more responsive at time, the redirection actually caused problems for some sites. What's more offensive is that they poison dns results for some sites, like google.com, and runs the data through their server. Very shady, and it causes problems with some sites.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20501179 Sun, 18 May 2008 10:39:42 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20474632 NormanS : Trade one pair of redirecting DNS servers for another...]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20474632 Tue, 13 May 2008 10:29:01 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20474244 Mele20 : Get Open DNS and ditch the RR DNS servers. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20474244 Tue, 13 May 2008 08:48:11 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20467311 anon :
said by EGeezer See Profile :

The fact still remains my email program was being screwed up because RoadRunner was returning suggestions.

So, based on your response, what was actually happening, and how should I have phrased the issue to satisfy your accuracy-in-reporting requirements?
You don't have to satisfy my requirements, I said no such thing. Don't be so defensive.

But again, a 404 error is not the same thing as a hostname not found. A 404 error is generated by a web server, and for a web server to give that error, it must exist. RR does not redirect 404 errors, I can type invalid pages all day long on real servers and get 404 errors using RR servers. If I type a server name that doesn't exist, I get a redirection to RR's ads.

Whatever strange email program you are using was obviously not getting 404 errors for things that were being redirected by RR. It just doesn't work like that.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20467311 Sun, 11 May 2008 21:51:08 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20465882 sivran : Such games are why I've taken to running my own internal dns.

So um, what email-checking program is this anyway?
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This DNS redirect has been a hot issue for months.
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So, based on your response, what was actually happening, and how should I have phrased the issue to satisfy your accuracy-in-reporting requirements?
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Wallace Sayre (apparently, so do governors... )]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20448310 Wed, 07 May 2008 20:51:57 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445894 anon : Road Runner doesn't redirect 404 error pages, that isn't possible through DNS redirection which they are using.

A 404 error is given by a real server that responds to a real name. Like if you typed »www.google.com/inex.html instead of index.html, you would get a 404 error.

If you typed »www.google.cmo instead of .com, then you would get redirected in DNS because the name www.google.cmo does not exist in global DNS.

Just responding because I continually see people saying that their 404 pages are being redirected, and that is not true. DNS doesn't know anything about 404 pages, it only knows if a hostname exists or not.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20445894 Wed, 07 May 2008 13:33:29 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444919 bufbandit : No problem at all.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444919 Wed, 07 May 2008 10:51:16 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444869 EGeezer : Alll righty then :D Checked and sure enough, there it is, the opt-out/disable option, in the lower right on my redirect page. Supposedly takes about 15 minutes to take effect.

Thanks for the help!

EG
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Wallace Sayre (apparently, so do governors... )]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444869 Wed, 07 May 2008 10:43:00 EDT Re: Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444809 bufbandit : There is an opt out option on the top right corner of the redirector page.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444809 Wed, 07 May 2008 10:32:31 EDT Road Runner redirecting http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444478 EGeezer : Recently time Warner Road runner started redirecting to "sponsored sites" instead of returning a 404 error as my email checking program requires. This is screwing up the program as well as returning a bunch of search results I don't want.

How can I stop RR from hijacking my connection and redirection?
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Wallace Sayre (apparently, so do governors... )]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20444478 Wed, 07 May 2008 09:16:53 EDT