special features

Barry Margolin barmar at alum.mit.edu
Fri May 9 02:01:36 UTC 2008


In article <fvuvp5$bo8$1 at sf1.isc.org>,
 Chris Buxton <cbuxton at menandmice.com> wrote:

> On May 7, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:27:04PM +0200,
> > Geoffroy ARNOUD <geo.arnoud at gmail.com> wrote
> > a message of 20 lines which said:
> >
> >> 2- Spoof of Name error response with a static IP address, in order
> >> to better control the user experience. For example, a user
> >> requesting www.unknownhost.com would not get an error from his
> >> browser, but would get the configured static IP address
> >> instead. Behind this IP address could be hosted a web server or
> >> somethine else.
> >
> > That is a very bad idea and I'm glad it is not possible with BIND.
> 
> I believe OpenDNS does this.

Only if you ask for it in your account preferences.

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Barry Margolin, barmar at alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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