> > > - stop using Starhub's DNS servers (or their services altogether, if so
> inclined). But the tricky part is to find alternate DNS servers that > still > > give you local results for DNS-based CDNs. > You can opt out of this "service". Type a nonsensical address, and on the > redirect/search page, look for the opt out link in the bottom right corner. > Oh, i'd forgotten all about that. > while the sensible thing would be to implement it using dnses, this is > not how they've done it. The magic is in the proxy. And just for the > record, it wouldnt be just typos that would end up getting caught. If > you thought a company had a ".com.sg" (not exactly a typo in the sense > of somebody "never" doing it!) but they didnt, you would get the page > too. > That can't be (wholly) right. Starhub operates a transparent proxy. If you can't resolve the invalid hostname to an IP address, you wouldn't even be able to connect to the website's IP and the transparent proxy never comes into play.
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