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) _______________________________________________ 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@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?
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debian@arm:~$ telnet af6hf.ampr.org Trying 92.242.140.21...
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