Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad revenue on 4.2.2.x

Re:Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad reve... by pyvpx on Saturday January 25, 2014 @02:11AM (#7120146)

and one of them is returning bogus junk. why should they (the NSP) care? especially if you aren't paying them for a network service? it's not hijacking -- 4.2.2.2 isn't a public resolver and never was. it just happened to become one.

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Re:Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad reve... by wpietri on Saturday January 25, 2014 @05:20PM (#7122776)

I'd say they should care because the Internet only survives through cooperative effort. Breaking something so they can pocket money is greedy and dickish.

But if they are being jerks rather than just being thoughtless, then maybe that isn't enough. In which case, my fallback answer is "bad PR". It would have been easier for them just to deny service to anybody they didn't want to serve. They went to a lot of trouble break something in a profitable way. To me, that says they might not be a trustworthy vendor, and thousands of nerds are now aware of that.

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Re:Level 3 are now hijacking failed DNS requests for ad reve... by sexmonad on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:19PM (#7121372)

It's still hijacking, but they're under no obligation to provide service.

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