You guys are not the only one seeing this...other people are talking
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/19/158208&from=rss
Michael
Syd Carter wrote:
Not to plug OpenDNS however should you decide to switch your DNS entry
to their servers then it offers a number of features that you may
appreciate. Such as, it will redirect 404s, allow you to create
shortcuts (ie: ast versus 1.9.168.0.100/admin ), and do some statistical
analysis. OpenDNS also states that you will get faster look-ups. I've
tried it. It was fun when my kids asked me why a picture of them came
up on the screen at times when they were surfing the internet (404
redirect).
Mike Ashton wrote:
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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