On 02/02/2010 19:59, Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:33 +0000, Martin Nicholas wrote: > <snip> >> If you're checking for an A-record you'll always get an answer with OpenDNS. > > Yep. That's their business model - the same one the the SiteFinder > debacle rolled out to, er, the entire Internet a few years ago. > > If you choose to use their free service, they deliver content to you > which might match the domain you requested when browsing for things > which have no A record. > > If you pay, you get "Ad-free Guide and block pages".
crapbook:~ mike$ host -t a sdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsgmail.com 208.67.220.220 Using domain server: Name: 208.67.220.220 Address: 208.67.220.220#53 Aliases: sdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsgmail.com has address 67.215.65.132 Then I logged into my free opendns account and turned everything in the advanced settings off and waited a few minutes. Now: crapbook:~ mike$ host -t a sdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsgmail.com 208.67.220.220 Using domain server: Name: 208.67.220.220 Address: 208.67.220.220#53 Aliases: Host sdsdsdsdsdsdsdsdsgmail.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN) crapbook:~ mike$ -- Mike Cardwell : UK based IT Consultant, Perl developer, Linux admin Cardwell IT Ltd. : UK Company - http://cardwellit.com/ #06920226 Technical Blog : Tech Blog - https://secure.grepular.com/ Spamalyser : Spam Tool - http://spamalyser.com/ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
