[COLUG] Roadrunner DNS Failure Redirects to ww23.rr.com search/advertising

[Rob Funk]

On Thu 6 March 2008 2:14pm Pat Collins wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 13:32:30 -0500, jep200404 
<jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote :
> > How many Linux using Roadrunner customers are seeing frequent DNS
> > failures that redirect to a ww23.rr.com search/advertising page?
>
> Run your own caching resolver to the root servers and you won't have
> this problem.

Or run dnsmasq (which uses the upstream DNS, plus /etc/hosts, plus other 
options) and using its "bogus-nxdomains" feature tell it the IP 
address(es) that RR is returning for bogus lookups.
  http://www.thekelleys.org.uk/dnsmasq/doc.html
Besides being smaller, dnsmasq has the advantage of being built into a 
lot of open-source router firmware.


Though I'm having so many problems with Embarq's DNS that I may switch 
to your solution.

-- 
==============================| "A slice of life isn't the whole cake
 Rob Funk <rfunk at funknet.net> | One tooth will never make a full grin"
 http://www.funknet.net/rfunk |    -- Chris Mars, "Stuck in Rewind"