In your router alter your DNS servers to OpenDNS ( www.opendns.com ).
They have multiple geographical DNS servers. They are a third part DNS
service and are free. I have all clients, friends and workers configure
to their servers. They honour TLS not like Rogers who ignore it.
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Mike
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.
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