NNSquad - Network Neutrality Squad
[ NNSquad ] Re: Definitions: "Network Neutrality" (and " National Security ")
On Sunday 11 November 2007 18:50, Robb Topolski wrote: > Someone else could contribute a way to see if their DNS queries are being > mishandled (e.g. Verizon). I did experience that particular issue here. I ran across some mention of that on a forum referenced in here, I believe it was dslreports.com? Anyhow that nonsense was apparently tested first over some limited area in the midwest and then deployed over large areas after that. I also found out how to fix it. I just changed the last octet for the two nameserver lines in my /etc/resolv.conf file (I run linux here) from 12 to 14 in both cases, and now that has ceased to be an issue with me. During the interval between when I'd become aware of it and when I'd fixed it I also emailed Verizon's customer service about it, and complained that those redirects were annoying. I did finally get a response after the fix had been done, pointing me toward their web site and toll-free number, both about equally useless and the latter in particular being a major waste of my time, and I told 'em that, too. Why can't a bloody internet company have somebody you can _email_ directly? I don't need the stupid machine that insists that you talk to it and the recordings telling me how important my call is. In response to the boilerplate in their message saying something about how much they valued my business mine was "prove it, please"... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin