On 20/07/10 18:04, Roy Lambert wrote:
> This one
>
> 302 Found HTTP/1.0 302 Found
> Location:http://guide.opendns.com/?url=www.bordercircuits.co.uk
> Content-type: text/html
> Content-Length: 0
> Connection: close Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:29:10 GMT
> Server: OpenDNS Guide
>
> is bad because its redirected to OpenDNS which essentially does a search.

I think the only way to handle this is to specifically detect opendns (and 
anything other similar DNS services). Essentially OpenDNS is lying to you 
(because you told it to: this is one of its configuration settings). So you 
try to go to www.somesitethatdoesnotexist.com, and OpenDNS (instead of giving 
you a DNS error) returns its own IP address, and when you do an HTTP request 
from that IP it's job is to redirect you to a search page.

If you have a reason to treat that as an error even though the user's admin 
has set up OpenDNS to do this (albeit that this is a default setting for 
OpenDNS), then you have to specifically look for 302 responses from OpenDNS 
and treat them as non-valid.

This is a common problem; try setting your mail client to an invalid domain 
and you'll get errors to the effect that there is no mail server running 
(because you've been directed to OpenDNS where there is no such service 
running), rather than getting a host can't be found message, which would have 
directed you to the fact that you spelt the host name wrong in your config. At 
least with web there is the redirect from their server to go by!

The only other way to handle this might be to do a reverse lookup on the DNS 
response and detect OpenDNS servers that way (which at least would not limit 
to http requests).

-- 
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