Well, we all know it goes something like this: while (# of tickets opened x cost of ticket < ad revenue): transparent_http_redirect()
Which gave me a *great* idea for improving home phone service. Why let all those mis-dialed numbers go to waste, when they could be connected to 411 where an operator would be happy to assist with switching your car insurance. Win-win!
re, spd On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, David Cook wrote:
You are using Rogers service, so by default you are using Rogers DNS. Their DNS can redirect 404's anywhere they like for your "benefit". They are doing their very best to "serve" you as a customer. Don't you like that they tried to help you out? Oh yeah, there might be a possibility that they gain some commercial benefit but I'm sure that is secondary to their desire to offer top quality service to their customers. </sarcasm> You could probably use someone else's DNS but that is inconvenient and by definition slower because packets would have to leave Rogers network in order to get name resolution. Some also consider this a little in bad taste to hit someone else's server when you aren't their customer. I tried long and hard and found a great ISP that is happy to sell me the pipe only. No crap. No redirections. And "yes" they permit you to run server services on your home DSL connection. Good companies are out there. You just have to do the digging yourself instead of waiting for TV/Radio spots to catch our attention. After all, most of us are very happy with VoIP service from Unlimitel. If they did all the marketing that Vonage does, they wouldn't be the quality they are at the price point they are at. I had my own beef with Rogers. I started getting spam to the email address I signed up to Rogers billing. I use unique addresses for every company I sign up with so if spam starts coming, I know who sold/leaked their list or had a security breach. I contacted Rogers Security & their Ombudsman and haven't even had the decency of a reply. - dbc. -----Original Message----- From: Chuck Mariotti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: July-18-08 10:41 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [on-asterisk] Rogers... Umm... holy crap! Sorry, this is somewhat unrelated, but as Simon said, it's for Asterisk enthusiasts... and what ever is related that might interest. I use Rogers... Like everyone else, I never install anything the ISP gives me on my computers. Never. For many reasons. Crappy anti-virus, crappy tools, etc... I am their customer, not their point of branding. Anyways, I was looking at Aastra's web site today, changed the url but did a bad copy paste job... and by mistake. I entered in the following: http://www.aastra.css Ooops... I should get 404 type error. I see it flash on by, and what do I get? I get Roger's branded Search results. Did I mean alastra? I got redirected to Roger's web page! http://www20.search.rogers.com/search?qo=www.aastra.ccc&rn=TSAKtsJmKhU9u40 Holly crapola. Does it in Firefox, does it on other computers in my network. Co-worker is using rogers, but not doing it for him. This just started today... Does anyone else have a problem with this? I mean, this is worse than traffic shaping as far as I am concerned. Get off my internet Rogers! Someone please tell me it's something I've done wrong and I can turn it off. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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