Re: it is avahi? Re: network

[Matthew Dawson <matthewjd@gmail.com>]

On June 30, 2013 10:05:41 PM Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, Michael wrote:
> > > That looks like someone is attempting to eavesdrop on you.
> > 
> > I would be interested in how that could work and how to defend against
> > it. Would you mind to try to explain it, for short ... ?
> 
> I'm not an expert, but let me put it this way: what would be the customer
> benefit of an ISP doing this?
> 
The most usual reason is that your ISP displays a page when you incorrectly 
enter a dns name, displaying an error.  OpenDNS does a similar thing by 
default (their search page).  Google does not.  It can be annoying though, as 
some software expects a NXDOMAIN for incorrect results, and your ISP returning 
a valid result messes that up (things like history, so now your browser 
remembers the mistaken url.)

My isp also does this.  I've switched to my own personal DNS server (that also 
does DNSSEC!) to avoid it.  But using Google's DNS works as well.
--
Matthew