Rogers Breaks DNS

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 04:36:25PM -0400, James Knott wrote:
> Colin McGregor wrote:
> >Just to note, Rogers has decided to break DNS. As of now any trip to a
> >website with an invalid URL and you will be taken to a Rogers/Yahoo
> >search website (with Rogers adverts.). I have called, complained and
> >been told "that is the way it is supposed to work".
> >
> >Is it my imagination or is Rogers totally determined to offer the
> >WORST possible Internet service in Canada?
> >
> >Colin McGregor
> >
> >  
> 
> It is possible to turn it off, by going to options.search.rogers.com. 
> <http://options.search.rogers.com>  However, it does so by leaving a 
> cookie on your computer.

Hmm, so if I enter www.gogggle.ca in opera, I get a 404.  If I do it in
firefox I get the rogers/yahoo search page.  WTF?

Also the rogers dns returns the same 3 addresses for all invalid
searches:
# host www.gogggle.ca
www.gogggle.ca has address 8.15.7.107
www.gogggle.ca has address 63.251.179.17
www.gogggle.ca has address 65.200.200.47
Host www.gogggle.ca not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
Host www.gogggle.ca not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)

So does it have an address or does it not?  What a weird result.

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