[ale] OT: March 9 Meeting

[William Witt]

Funny but true search for "http" a google.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=http&btnG=Google+Search

Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
> except this doesn't use dns.  it uses google search.
>
> On 3/6/06, *Jeff Hubbs* <hbbs at comcast.net <mailto: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 <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.
>     >
>     >
>     >
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Ale mailing list
>     Ale at ale.org <mailto:Ale at ale.org>
>     http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>     <http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...