On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 22:23 +0800, [email protected] wrote: >>You can opt out of this "service". Type a nonsensical address, and >>on the >>>redirect/search page, look for the opt out link in the bottom >>right corner. > > Oh, i'd forgotten all about that. Doing that merely sets a cookie in your browser. It has no actual effect on the DNS lookups, and other applications will be still affected >That can't be (wholly) right. Starhub operates a transparent >proxy. If you >can't resolve the invalid hostname to an IP address, you wouldn't >even be >able to connect to the website's IP and the transparent proxy never >comes >into play. My take on things is that the DNS responses are tracked and intercepted in line if the upstream server doesn't respond in time. As the first matching request with the correct sequence number is the one that gets used, their intercepted request to their search server is used instead of the NXDOMAIN. I've called and filed several complaints to their helpdesk, as it was breaking my applications and split-VPN behaviour. They claimed that no other customer has filed a similar complaint, and that they would look into it. I left them after two weeks and am with M1 ADSL, which is pretty nice, except for the technical support.
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