Our ISP also did this without notifying anyone, and I contacted the
ISP (eastlink), they were very helpful at tech tier 2 and gave me
two other DNS servers that did not do this..installed these DNS
servers in their router and the problem went away..
(told them this breaks many things on my system including ping giving
false replies)..in our case it always redirected us to a search engine
in California, lol
On 07/31/2014 03:54 PM, Marius Petrescu wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages)
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It seems that the provider of the machine you originated the connect from
offers a little "help".
Instead of rejecting the DNS request (af6hf doesn't resolve), it offers a
fake reply, so a browser request will be redirected to some page (usually
advertisements or some search engine).
In your case:
Name: unallocated.barefruit.co.uk
Address: 92.242.140.21
This practice becomes more and more popular among providers.
Marius, YO2LOJ
-----Original Message-----
From: 44net-bounces+marius=yo2loj.ro(a)hamradio.ucsd.edu
[mailto:44net-bounces+marius=yo2loj.ro@hamradio.ucsd.edu] On Behalf Of Eric
Fort
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2014 21:42
To: AMPRNet working group
Subject: [44net]
ampr.org hostname resolves to non 44/8 ip - what's up here?
...
debian@arm:~$ telnet
af6hf.ampr.org
Trying 92.242.140.21...
...
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