Riiiiiiight, I guess wildcarding is how Verizon serves you those annoying
http://wwwwz.websearch.verizon.net pages.
I updated the DNS forwarders as well as /etc/resolv.conf to use 8.8.8.8 and
8.8.4.4, Google's public DNS. Problem solved; DNS fails when it should.
w00t!
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/2010 12:58 PM, Josh Malone wrote:
> > Frank J. Gómez wrote:
> >> $ host vostro1400
> >> vostro1400 has address 8.15.7.117
> >> vostro1400 has address 63.251.179.13
> >> Host vostro1400 not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)
> >
> > Looks like DNS wildcarding on the part of Verizon to me. I suspect 'host
> > foobarblablah' would return the exact same thing.
>
> Yes, I forgot about that evil practice. They should have an 'opt-out'
> mechanism somewhere but it's probably easier to just not use their dns
> servers.
>
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