The ISPs Who Route Around VeriSign
from the good-for-them dept
Broadband Report is naming some of the ISPs who are routing around VeriSign’s attempt at hijacking all typo traffic with their SiteFinder service. Interestingly, a bunch of them are pointing people to Google instead. I don’t necessarily see why Google deserves that traffic either. Why not just put it back to normal and give me back my “page not found” information?
Comments on “The ISPs Who Route Around VeriSign”
huh 'page not found'?
Why not just put it back to normal and give me back my “page not found” information?
How is ‘page not found’ correct?
Is it not *MORE* correct to say ‘cannot resolve host’? Or how about: whatever.blah.name.com could not be found. Please check the name and try again.
Why ask for more broken behavior of ‘page not found’?
Re: huh 'page not found'?
When you type in a site and it doesnt come up, was the page you wanted found ? No. It doesnt tell you why it wasnt found, spelling, dead server, bad DNS, etc (actually it does if you scroll to the bottom) – just it wasnt found. Which it wasnt.
Re: huh 'page not found'?
Semantics. It should return the correct NXDOMAIN response as per the RFC.
Re: Re: huh 'page not found'?
Hack version 1:
update your bind server to turn all requests which return the IP address of sitefinder to return NXDOMAIN instead. Restores “correct” behavior. More difficult to implement.
Hack version 2:
Have a local override for the IP address of sitefinder which actually points at your own service or google. Trivial (I think) to implement.
Personally, I’m still impressed with the number of referrals I’ve been getting from sitefinder. Currently, its third behind Google and Yahoo.
Brandon
Re: huh 'page not found'?
Hey, okay, now you’re just getting into semantics. I just meant the normal informative page if it had trouble finding the host.
To stop this
(On a windows machine) Find your “hosts” file and add an entry for sitefinder.verisign.com and point it to 127.0.0.1 save and presto, no more verisign page.
Re: To stop this
Great.. now you get cannot connect to server error! 🙁