Travis Roy wrote: > >> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Michael ODonnell wrote: >>> I have no love for ComcCast - I'd drop them yesterday >>> if I had any better (or even comparable) choices - > > I use Earthlink for my cable service... > > It's from Comcast, and my bill actually comes from Comcast, but I get an > Earthlink IP, Earthlink DNS, and Earthlink reverse DNS. > > I did this because I have DirecTV. If you have Comcast for TV and > internet, then Comcast is cheaper, but if you don't use Comcast for TV > service Earthlink is cheaper (due to Concast's bundle discounts). > > I've been very happy with it.
I'm a long time Earthlink subscriber -- started with dialup but now have Earthlink through my cable broadband. Until recently I have been perfectly happy, but now I have one huge issue with Earthlink: Remember when VeriSign decided to grab all nonexistent domain names and return the IP address of their "helpful" search service called SiteFinder? They did it using a wildcard DNS entry. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitefinder. Now Earthlink is doing the same thing for users of it's default DNS servers (from DHCP). Enter a non-existent DNS domain and you get an invalid "found" response with the IP address of their search/advertising portal run by an outfit called barefruit.com. You can read Earthlink's blog about this "helpful" service and the furious responses from users here: http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/08/handling_dead_domains_1.php http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/09/update_on_dead_domain_handling_1.php http://blogs.earthlink.net/2006/09/more_info_on_dead_domain_handl.php See also http://weblog.infoworld.com/gripeline/archives/2006/09/earthlink_tries.html. I'm an Earthlink subscriber (a reluctant one after this "SiteFinder" stunt) but I've configured alternate DNS. -- Mark Polhamus _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
