[Madlug] TDS dns redirection

[Jess Anderson]

Speaking of TDS, for the past few weeks my nominally 4 MB
DSL (i.e., ~2.2 MB) has been running at very low speeds
(like 30 KB) during evening hours. I wonder if others see
this. I assume it's over-subscription of some kind. Hints
on what to do, if anything, are welcome.



Chris Dolan wrote:
> Starting today, TDS appears to pulling DNS shenanigans and is  
> redirecting DNS lookup failures to their own annoying search portal.   
> Failed lookups cause HTTP requests to go to
> 
>     http://searchguide.tds.net/index.php?origURL=<original URL>
> 
> nslookup returns 216.24.138.156 for all bogus domains.  I'm thinking  
> about adding an ipfw rule to block that IP address.
> 
> I know there are some TDS people on this list.  Do you know what  
> would be the most effective way to protest this ludicrous misuse of  
> technology for marketing purposes?
> 
> Chris
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