[ale] OT: March 9 Meeting

[Rev. Johnny Healey]

except this doesn't use dns.  it uses google search.

On 3/6/06, Jeff Hubbs <hbbs at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Could that be an example of DNS poisoning?  I recall something in the
> DNS specs about how null names are to be resolved.  Perhaps a local DNS
> has been tricked to doing something that maps nulls to MS, much as IE
> (at least at one time ) "steals" 404 pages and points people to MSN
> Search instead.
>
> Geoffrey wrote:
>
> >Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
> >
> >
> >>if firefox can't parse a url, it does a google "I'm feeling Lucky"
> search.
> >>So, if you type in a word, or the name of a site (such as "slashdot") it
> >>will sometimes take you where you want to go.  So when it sees "
> >>http://http/;//ale.org", it passes that to google.  The real wtf here is
> >>that the first link returned by "http" is microsoft's web site.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Exactly.  It's more like returning a negated value.
> >
> >
> >
>
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