said by korym :

Looks like they're taking cues from OpenDNS. I wonder if they'll offer phishing services as well.

said by ColorBASIC :

Then call every 2 months and use other DNS servers unless you have a good alternative available.

said by TKJunkMail :

Use your own PC based DNS service. I use treewalk to handle my DNS needs. It has worked without any problems for the last year. »www.ntcanuck.com/

said by nixen :

All of which assumes a provider never decides to do a transparent proxy of port 53. One of them will eventually try that.

said by dvd536 :

A provider cant filter/block ports on the LOCAL side, only at the modem.

said by fiberguy :

Again, it's funny that you don't understand that...

You're wrong. Maybe in THIS particular forum people are focusing on the ads and the revenue, but just about every one in the past (usually posted on weekdays) HAVE in fact focused on the technical aspect of the DNS redirects.

The beauty of computers and websites with databased forums is you can look it up.. it's been talked about in great length here.

And, as I stated, it's NOT the job of the ISP to redirect mistyped domains.. it's not the point about the ads. The ISP are, in a single switch, disabling features of the web browser and the end user's software when they redirect all 404s to THEIR page. As I stated, when if I want to search from my address bar? The redirect takes that away. When spam filters do a reverse look up on the domain from spoofed emails, it reverts back and the domain resolves. There are MANY technical reasons why this is a bad idea.

If it was such a great thing, then why are they providing alternate DNS? Why was Network Solutions told to knock it off?

There are plenty of reasons why ISPs need to keep their hands off of 404 pages.

As I said, TODAY it may be focused on the ads and the "few bucks" but in every other posting it has all been about the technical aspect of it all.

"Oh no! I was redirected to an ISP page instead of a 404 error! The humanity! Now I'll have to look at an ISP page instead of a 404 screen for the 5 seconds it takes to retype the URL! The horror!

said by dynodb :

I can see how it would minor annoyance in the rare occasion that you mistype a URL, but the "OMG GREEDY EVIL ISP BASTARDS!" outrage seems disproportionate over what seems to me to be a pretty minor issue- especially when there are painless ways around it.

And just exactly how does this affect spam filters?

said by IPingUPing :

Check the original forum post from coxengr .

»Gulf Coast test info

"These enhanced error results are designed to help the average user more quickly reach their web destinations, and only affect web page responses ('A' records to those in the know)."

said by dynodb :

Am I missing something here? I know it's a little annoying to be redirected after mistyping a URL, but as often as not you end up at a link farm anyways even without the redirect.

Unless it's causing actual problems aside from the minor annoyance of being redirected instead of a 404 error, I don't understand the outrage.

said by dynodb :

Well, since no one surfs the web while at work, it shouldn't be a problem

said by zerog :

Can someone post some specific examples of what this will break exactly?

said by zerog :

In most corporate VPN scenarios, the corporate DNS servers are used during the VPN session and (usually) all traffic is routed through the corporate network.

said by zerog :

I am certainly against such a practice unless the customers are fully aware

said by zerog :

and the practice can benefit the customer somehow (ie, through price breaks, increased speeds, etc)

said by dynodb :

Am I missing something here? I know it's a little annoying to be redirected after mistyping a URL, but as often as not you end up at a link farm anyways even without the redirect.

Unless it's causing actual problems aside from the minor annoyance of being redirected instead of a 404 error, I don't understand the outrage.