Re: DNS and nxdomain hijacking

[Phil Bedard <bedard.phil () gmail com>]

On 11/5/13, 7:25 PM, "Jimmy Hess" <mysidia () gmail com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Warren Bailey <
> wbailey () satelliteintelligencegroup com> wrote:
>
>
> > I've noticed a lot more nxdomain redirects on providers (cox, uverse,
> > tmo,
>
>
> I believe these ISPs have been servicing a mucked up recursive DNS like
> this for quite a while.

I think every major residential ISP in the US has been doing this for 5+
years now.  I worked at one provider who made a pretty decent chunk of
change off the monthly ad revenue and that was 6 years ago.  People typo a
lot of URLs.  

Charter (my current ISP) does let you disable it via the web.

Phil