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What country do you live in? I have never seen an Israeli ISP do that. (Although, there were reports a few years ago that Bezeq intercepted .torrent files to a

by nyellin 14y ago

What country do you live in? I have never seen an Israeli ISP do that. (Although, there were reports a few years ago that Bezeq intercepted .torrent files to add their own trackers to the file.)

polyfractal 14y ago
I live in the US and have had Comcast do this to me before. I routinely use GoogleDNS because of that. Also because Comcast DNS sucks horribly and times out with upsetting regularity.
- ohashi 14y ago
  That is my experience with comcast dns too. Although, I have had some issues with google dns too on a rare occasion where I had to change back to something else (comcast or opendns) for a short while until google dns worked again. They never hijacked anything, but it just stopped working for a brief period.
- mikeash 14y ago
  Note that you can opt out of Comcast's DNS hijacking, although the fact that it's on by default is still pretty bad. There is, as far as I know, no switch to make their DNS more reliable, though.
  - staplesowns 14y ago
    If you're using Comcast Business, I've yet to find a way to do this. Comcast Support (email, phone, live chat) also have no idea. If anyone knows how to do it, please let me know.
    - mikeash 14y ago
      That's crazy. You'd think the business version would have more customization available, not less. I take it you've logged into your comcast.net account and the box to disable it isn't there for you?
  - streptomycin 14y ago
    I have Cablevision and they technically allow you to opt out. But even after opting out, I still get that damned useless ad-infested search page sometimes, seemingly at random. I'm not sure if it's because of their incompetence of malicious intent.
  - X-Istence 14y ago
    Comcast has disabled all DNS hijacking, and has since they implemented their DNSSEC validating servers.
    - AjithAntony 14y ago
      Yeah, I think you are right. The "Domain Helper" options no longer appear in my accounts page: http://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/help-index.php http://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/help-index.php
pault 14y ago
AFAIK all of the major ISPs in the U.S. do this.
mrcharles 14y ago
Rogers and Bell in Canada both give you their own pages when you type a URL that doesn't exist.

by nyellin 14y ago

What country do you live in? I have never seen an Israeli ISP do that. (Although, there were reports a few years ago that Bezeq intercepted .torrent files to add their own trackers to the file.)

polyfractal 14y ago

I live in the US and have had Comcast do this to me before. I routinely use GoogleDNS because of that. Also because Comcast DNS sucks horribly and times out with upsetting regularity.

ohashi 14y ago
That is my experience with comcast dns too. Although, I have had some issues with google dns too on a rare occasion where I had to change back to something else (comcast or opendns) for a short while until google dns worked again. They never hijacked anything, but it just stopped working for a brief period.
mikeash 14y ago
Note that you can opt out of Comcast's DNS hijacking, although the fact that it's on by default is still pretty bad. There is, as far as I know, no switch to make their DNS more reliable, though.
- staplesowns 14y ago
  If you're using Comcast Business, I've yet to find a way to do this. Comcast Support (email, phone, live chat) also have no idea. If anyone knows how to do it, please let me know.
  - mikeash 14y ago
    That's crazy. You'd think the business version would have more customization available, not less. I take it you've logged into your comcast.net account and the box to disable it isn't there for you?
- streptomycin 14y ago
  I have Cablevision and they technically allow you to opt out. But even after opting out, I still get that damned useless ad-infested search page sometimes, seemingly at random. I'm not sure if it's because of their incompetence of malicious intent.
- X-Istence 14y ago
  Comcast has disabled all DNS hijacking, and has since they implemented their DNSSEC validating servers.
  - AjithAntony 14y ago
    Yeah, I think you are right. The "Domain Helper" options no longer appear in my accounts page: http://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/help-index.php http://dns-opt-out.comcast.net/help-index.php

pault 14y ago

AFAIK all of the major ISPs in the U.S. do this.

mrcharles 14y ago

Rogers and Bell in Canada both give you their own pages when you type a URL that doesn't exist.