Comments on: US ISP redirects DNS in Firefox toolbar http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2010/04/06/us-isp-redirects-dns-in-firefox-toolbar/ Gen Kanai's Mozilla weblog Wed, 20 Feb 2013 15:55:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Wil Clouser http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2010/04/06/us-isp-redirects-dns-in-firefox-toolbar/comment-page-1/#comment-106116 Wil Clouser Thu, 08 Apr 2010 02:58:53 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/?p=450#comment-106116 My frustration with this usually stems from seeing a site I know isn’t up responding, and then realizing it’s just hijacked DNS. It’s not great, but it’s pretty much par for the course these days I think. Comcast has been doing it for months (years?).

]]> By: Nathan http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/2010/04/06/us-isp-redirects-dns-in-firefox-toolbar/comment-page-1/#comment-106079 Nathan Tue, 06 Apr 2010 15:34:07 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.org/gen/?p=450#comment-106079 ISPs that intercept or alter content need to be shot. Dead. And stomped on. And flogged. Then stomped on again. Then nuked from orbit just to be sure.

My ISP, and I know many other, have been serving up bogus site page full of advertising whenever a site DNS name is not found. So if Mozilla wanted to give special instructions, help, or even their own advertising to users when a site is not found, you are out of luck as this is hijacked. (This also breaks apps that rely on getting a proper DNS error response, but they don’t care. I ultimately had to reconfigure my computer to use different DNS servers. I shouldn’t have to do that!)

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