On Sep 11, 2008, at 18:18, Anne Cartwright wrote:
I was going to say foo (as in Foo.com) since I don't really understand any of this, but thought Marta would beat me to it.
foo is common as a meaningless word in programming---it has a meaning, but not one to discuss here. It's counterpart is 'bar' which is 'beyond all repair'.
Then I googled DNS and read the Wikipedia account on Domain Name System and still feel lost.
The DNS is the Domain Name Server---it is the thing that translates apple.com into the IP (internet protocol) address. Think of it as the thing which translates 'Eva Jones house' to '666 Foo Drive'. DNS's are supposed to send a message back saying "I don't know the Jones" when there is no Jones (here: no stata). In this case, Safari makes some other intelligent guesses as to what "stata" might mean and tries them. The cable company has decided not to send back the message about not finding the address, and instead is saying "Hey! We did a crappy search for stata in our database (including people who pay for such things), and think you mean this!"
And what is the crap from the ISP that Bill wants to filter out?
The last garbage. I want the DNS to say "duh" not "duh, but here is some advertising". That's all.
Bill
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