Friday, June 6, 2008
itemnotfound.com
One annoying thing that's become a common source of extra revenue for ISPs is to damage the DNS. If a web page isn't found, rather than reporting it, the browser is redirected to itemnotfound.com or some such. Why does this matter?
(1) The mis-typed URL is gone, so the user can't immediately see what the typo was.
(2) It's a page of ads. Aren't we subjected to enough ads on a day-to-day, or minute-to-minute basis?
Anyhow, in an effort to assert ownership of my computer and browser, I've added these lines to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 wwwv.itemnotfound.com
127.0.0.1 www.itemnotfound.com
127.0.0.1 itemnotfound.com
Labels:
CavTel,
DNS,
Firefox,
itemnotfound.com
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