On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 04:28:49PM +0100, Ariane van der Steldt wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 07:53:05AM -0500, stan wrote: > > I have a couple of 4.6 machines that I use for internal name servers. > > Yesterday, while changing a few DNS records, I mis typed the name I was > > searching for, and found out that somehow I seem to subject to someone who > > has set up a wildcard DNS machine. Look at this: > > > > > > Your localhost dns probably uses another dns server (from your ISP) > that returns this IP address on anything that doesn't exist. Browsing > to the address yields a page that says the site is not available. > Your isp is helpfully aiding your webbrowsing experience by letting you > know something that your browser usually tells you, but ofcourse, your > isp does it prettier and in their own house-style. You should praise and > thank your isp for their consideration. ;) > > How to fix it: complain to your isp or stop using their (dns) service. > > Thank you.
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