Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-30 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Jude Britto wrote: Ok, but I hope you understand the implications if you are using it. I really don't... please enlighten.

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-30 Thread Jude Britto
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:38 AM, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i don't see this as a bad thing, given their reasons. Ok, but I hope you understand the implications if you are using it. -Jude

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-30 Thread Jude Britto
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Venkat Mangudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: I really don't... please enlighten. (Assuming that wasn't sarcasm) Any requests your browser makes to www.google.com go to their machines instead which apparently transparently proxy the real www.google.com. If you are

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-30 Thread Udhay Shankar N
Jude Britto wrote, [on 10/30/2008 8:27 PM]: Any requests your browser makes to www.google.com go to their machines instead which apparently transparently proxy the real www.google.com. If you are signed into your google account (gmail), these requests will include browser cookies that are

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
OMG, another Googler, welcome. Cheeni (one of 3 (?) Googlers on board) (+1 Xoogler) -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:16:34AM +0530, Venkat Mangudi wrote: The one thing I miss in Tomato is VPN. If that were there, this would rock! Try OpenWRT, then. Plenty of packages there. Notice that the hardware is underpowered, depending on your Internet connection. I personally recommend

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
2008/10/28 Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OpenDNS is no better, perhaps worse: In addition to redirecting nonexistent I was using OpenDNS for a while for both my home and office networks, but have stopped recently. Am currently using Level 3's servers. Ram

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Chris Kantarjiev
The one thing I miss in Tomato is VPN. If that were there, this would rock! It's there in recent releases...

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Jude Britto
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:19 PM, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am currently using Level 3's servers. Thanks for the tip. Ping to these servers is actually slightly faster than OpenDNS. Still about five times slower than BSNL. -Jude

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 07:26:20PM +0530, Jude Britto wrote: Am currently using Level 3's servers. Thanks for the tip. Ping to these servers is actually slightly faster than OpenDNS. Still about five times slower than BSNL. The ping to my DNS server is half a microsecond, or so. --

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Jude Britto
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: OMG, another Googler, welcome. Cheeni (one of 3 (?) Googlers on board) (+1 Xoogler) Thanks :).

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Sriram Karra
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (+1 Xoogler) Thanks :). Heh. did you just thank Sumant for quitting your company? :)

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
I just saw that! I didn't think I was that bad! :) On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Sriram Karra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sumant Srivathsan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (+1 Xoogler)

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-29 Thread Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 20:37 +0530, Jude Britto wrote: OpenDNS is no better, perhaps worse: In addition to redirecting nonexistent domains to their own error pages, they resolve google's domain names (and perhaps others) to their own range of IP addresses.

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what this is called but earlier, when I typed in a name DNS hijacking. And I suppose it's entirely legal for them to do? Use alternative DNS servers (OpenDNS, but change the default behaviour) or run your

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure but maybe stopping and unloading the airtel speed booster or net booster or some similar software from your taskbar might help Don't have any of that running or installed. Am on an Ubuntu box. -- Please

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
See http://www.onspeed.com - it is kind of a transparent caching proxy + speed booster for internet access. Not sure but maybe stopping and unloading the airtel speed booster or net booster or some similar software from your taskbar might help srs Gautam John [28/10/08 14:39 +0530]:

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gautam John [28/10/08 14:55 +0530]: On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure but maybe stopping and unloading the airtel speed booster or net booster or some similar software from your taskbar might help Don't have any of that running or

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - any more than akamai type services do. You arent seeing nebuad type popup ads or specially crafted 404 error pages stuffed with ads, are you? No pop-ups but this is what I saw:

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Gautam John [28/10/08 15:03 +0530]: No pop-ups but this is what I saw: http://airtel.onspeednx.com/nx/search/?q=jawbonea=1005s=1d=1 Their main page states: ONSPEEDNX provides ISP's and Network providers with solutions to monetize user error pages. Sigh. As long as they arent monetizing the

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 02:46:17PM +0530, Gautam John wrote: DNS hijacking. And I suppose it's entirely legal for them to do? I personally find it unacceptable, and would terminate my contract if it wasn't so easily circumventable (my cable provider does it, and in fact links user portal use

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Gautam John
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Gautam John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure what this is called but earlier, when I typed in a name into my Firefox address bar it would return a Google search or, if famous enough, connect to the website the keyword specified. Apparently it redirects

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Gautam John wrote: No pop-ups but this is what I saw: http://airtel.onspeednx.com/nx/search/?q=jawbonea=1005s=1d=1 Their main page states: ONSPEEDNX provides ISP's and Network providers with solutions to monetize user error pages. Two words... Use OpenDNS.

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Jude Britto
Use OpenDNS. Couldn't resist replying to this thread :) OpenDNS is no better, perhaps worse: In addition to redirecting nonexistent domains to their own error pages, they resolve google's domain names (and perhaps others) to their own range of IP addresses.

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Use OpenDNS. Couldn't resist replying to this thread :) OpenDNS is no better, perhaps worse: Myself, I use my own servers. It is trivial to do that, and I depend on no one's good will. Perry

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 04:06:29PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Myself, I use my own servers. It is trivial to do that, and I depend on no one's good will. Very much so. However, you can run a caching DNS server locally if you're on a *nix, and I use a Mac mini as a generic low-power

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Jude Britto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Intro: I'm Jude; I work for Google in Bangalore. I find the discussions on this list interesting, and have been lurking on it long enough to know not to top post :). OMG, another Googler, welcome. Cheeni (one of 3 (?)

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Eugen Leitl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] no-noise server for the house LAN. In terms of the juice saved it pays for itself in no time (and mine was free anyway). Do you mean electrical power when you say juice? And, how does it pay for itself, by saved

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Alok G. Singh
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: P.S. I've been planning on flashing my WRT54G for a while now - to run DNS and other cool stuff Do so without delay. I also didn't do it for a long time assuming that it would take some time to setup. But with Tomato [1], the entire process of downloading, flashing

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: Do you mean electrical power when you say juice? And, how does it pay for itself, by saved bandwidth? Cheeni P.S. I've been planning on flashing my WRT54G for a while now - to run DNS and other cool stuff I run Tomato on my WRT54G. I just love this router...

Re: [silk] Airtel Redirecting?

2008-10-28 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Alok G. Singh wrote: Srini Ramakrishnan wrote: I found that it had copied over all my configuration (except port forwarding) from the old firmware on my GL v1.1. The one thing I miss in Tomato is VPN. If that were there, this would rock!