DNS modification?

Mark Andrews Mark_Andrews at isc.org
Tue Jan 17 22:24:34 UTC 2006


> Hi All,
> 
> Would be grateful if anyone could help. This is a more detail
> description to my previous question.
> 
> The scenario is this:
> A user on his/her web browser typed an url, browser send url to DNS to
> check and found it to be  invalid, and the web browser display a error
> page to the user.
> 
> Instead of the above process flow, is it possible that we could
> intercept the invalid result from the DNS server, send user typed url
> as keywords to a search engine, and display the search results to this
> user?

	The bad idea fairy has been at work again.  The Internet is not
	just HTTP.  Other protocols work better when they can get the
	full range of error codes returned from the DNS.

> At the moment we have a javascript which could send keywords to Yahoo,
> and Yahoo returns a xml file to us and then we customize our own search
> page.
> This is so that we could return it to the user's web browser.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Wilson
> 
> 
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