[Hidden-tech] Web URL hijack

[Peter Hutchins]

You can avoid Verizon's error page by using a free DNS service such  
as http://www.opendns.com/

You get some nice features with OpenDNS, like typo correction,  
shortcuts and even the ability to customize your error pages. Get  
your own branded error pages! That'll show Verizon... :-) Not to  
mention the DNS resolution speed improvement.

I use OpenDNS because their DNS servers update much quicker than  
Verizon's. Relying on Verizon DNS, I would make a DNS change and not  
see it reflected by Verizon for days. With OpenDNS the change is  
almost instantaneous after the authoritative DNS server accepts the  
change. This means I can move a web site to a new server, change the  
DNS record and see the results usually within minutes. It also makes  
debugging DNS issue a lot easier.

-pH


On Nov 8, 2007, at 12:59 PM, Fred Levine wrote:

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>
> This isn't just happening with FIOS. I just switched to Verizon  
> DSL, and I'm
> getting a Verizon-branded error page.
>
>
>>    ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
>>    ** You too can help the group
>>    ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area.
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>>
>> I wonder if your URL hijack issue has to do with Verizon's new  
>> "service":
>>
>> Verizon Overrides Internet Searches With Its Own Results
>> Web search "tinkering" raises net neutrality concerns
>>
>> by Martin H. Bosworth
>> ConsumerAffairs.Com
>>
>> November 3, 2007
>>
>> Subscribers to Verizon's high-powered fiber-optic Internet service
>> (FiOS) are reporting that when they mistype a Web site address,  
>> they get
>> redirected to Verizon's own search engine page -- even if they don't
>> have Verizon's search page set as their default...
>>
>> link: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/11/ 
>> verizon_search.html
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