From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Robert Riches wrote:   
   > On 2012-08-26, Moe Trin  wrote:   
   >> On Fri, 24 Aug 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   >> , Adam wrote:   
      
   >> A couple of years ago, one of the   
   >> main Internet registrars decided it would be a great idea to put a   
   >> wild-card entry in their DNS server, so no matter what you mistyped as   
   >> a URL, you got their web-site and advertisements amounting to "the   
   >> domain you are looking for is available - would you like to buy it?"   
   >> or "that host doesn't exist, so view our ads instead".   
   >   
   > Then, there are the ISPs that do basically the same thing for   
   > their customers.  Verizon at least had opt-out alternate DNS   
   > servers, but frontier doesn't.  Opendns works as a solution for   
   > that problem.   
      
   I'm running my own DNS, but (the stub of) my web site is   
   mysite.verizon.net/adam707 which works correctly.  When I try to access   
   mysite.verizon.net/adam708 (which I assume is the same IP as mine), I   
   get the standard "Not Found / The requested URL /adam708 was not found   
   on this server."  Wouldn't that mean that VZ is /not/ redirecting my   
   request for a nonexistent URL?  Or did you mean that VZ did this in the   
   past, but doesn't now?   
      
   Adam   
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