On Sunday 20 January 2008 19:22:00 Rajko M. wrote: > On Sunday 20 January 2008 09:56:27 am Stan Goodman wrote: > > On Sunday 20 January 2008 17:05:27 James Knott wrote: > > ... > > > > I have never seen that behaviour. When I attempt to go to a bogus site, > > > both Firefox and Konqueror give an error message. > > ... > > > I do find it curious that the same behavior exhibited by both Firefox and > > Konqueror -- two independent applications that, as far as I know, do not > > share any elements. If they do share e.g. a dll, I suppose that would > > finger the shared file. > > I have seen the other page instead of error, but that has nothing to do > with browsers. > > The trick is that if DNS query should give error my provider redirects > browser to their advertising page. The same happens if their DNS server has > no answer (guess: it times out), I get the same. > > I was thinking about how they do that. Probably they use proxy that is > replacing failed DNS query with adds.
That's simple programming. But in my case the "default" page belongs to me, as does the domain. That may be the answer to "why is THAT page the default" -- its address is the same as the domain of my email address -- but it would need to add the top domain to do that. But it is very annoying. And the question remains what software is causing it, since it is independent of the browser. This does not happen with OS/2 using the same name servers. For that matter, I don't remember it happening with openSuSE v10.2. And it doesn't happen with the v10.3 of other people. Nevertheless, I could try other name servers. Maybe this one is taking too long to suit SuSE, but I doubt that -- it is too consistent. What bothers me is that it is connected with the inability for the browser to complete a URL with the "com". Firefox knows how to do that, but it seems not get a chance to try. The jump to my website seems instantaneous; it doesn't even think about top domains. > > > -- > Regards, > Rajko -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
