Re: Level(3) DNS Spoofing All Domains

[Matthew Pounsett <matt () conundrum com>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 10:57, Patrick Schultz <lists-nanog () schultz top>
wrote:

> Just to weigh in: Here in Germany, the largest internet provider (Deutsche
> Telekom) did the same thing.
> It's basically just a "search guide", it redirects you to a search page
> and assumes you just had a typo in the URL.
>
> Telekom stopped doing that in April, after a user reported them to the
> district attorney for supposed data manipulation, a misdemeanor.

If your entire Internet is just the web then it's perhaps not a big deal.
But there are a lot of protocols that depend on proper functioning of
NXDOMAIN.  If you recall, Verisign got in a bunch of trouble for doing that
back in the day at the authoritative level.

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