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How Earthlink broke the Internet

publish.com — In this article, the author opines that "In a bid to increase ad revenues, Earthlink hijacked the DNS system, which may cause problems for a whole slew of applications. " He makes some good points about how this could affect FTP, e-mail, etc.

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  • spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I guess the main concern here would be if other ISP's start taking up this odious practice.

    Does any ISP other than Earthlink currently do this?
  • spiffyjeff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm about to change my DNS server to http://www.opendns.com/start/

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