[ale] Comcast adopts DNS hijacking, cashes in on bad URLs

Rev. Johnny Healey rev.null at gmail.com
Fri Aug 7 11:03:56 EDT 2009


Luckily, the hijacking only happens during the rare times when
comcast's DNS servers are working.  I feel bad that most users don't
know how to point their DNS requests elsewhere.

-Johnny

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> adblocker will stop their cashing in...
>
> too bad adblocker causes "issues" with a Juniper VPN client I use that
> runs from a java web connection.
>
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 10:15 AM, <krwatson at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> Comcast adopts DNS hijacking, cashes in on bad URLs
>> http://www.techspot.com/news/35736-comcast-adopts-dns-hijacking-cashes-in-on-bad-urls.html
>>
>> http://preview.tinyurl.com/n796bl
>>
>> keith
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