Re: GCI wildcarding

Maybe this is something they do just for you?

I go to that IP address and all I get is 404.

Teasing aside, I find that rather annoying myself. One typo in an
address and either someones trying to sell you something, or you're
looking at pictures you really didn't need to see.

Scott Johnson wrote:
> Am I the only one seeing GCI DNS servers 209.165.131.12 & .13 are returning
> wildcard results for non-existent domains? I keep getting 65.200.200.60 for
> any DNS record that isn't valid. Sigh.... has this been happening for a
> while and I just now noticed it? Connecting on port 80 returns a "My GCI"
> search results page filled with a bunch of advertising.
> ICANN called on VeriSign [
> http://www.icann.org/announcements/advisory-19sep03.htm] to end this
> practice when they implemented it on the root zone - why did GCI have to
> break things too?
> Man.....
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Received on Sun Nov 18 18:11:51 2007