From: adam@address.invalid   
      
   Moe Trin wrote:   
   > On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in   
   article   
   > , Adam wrote:   
      
   > The abuse I'm speaking of was a top-level (.com.) DNS   
   > server returning the address of the spam server owned by the owner of   
   > the DNS server if you asked for "example.non-existent-domain.com".   
   [...]   
   > Any of the name servers may return a "NXDOMAIN" response   
      
   But /shouldn't/ that be returned only by the highest-level DNS?  Just   
   because my DNS (or any intermediate one) has no record of it doesn't   
   mean the domain doesn't exist.   
      
   Anyway, using Verizon's DNS, valid hosts were OK, but:   
      
   [adam@eris ~]$ ping kjtroi.com   
   ping: unknown host kjtroi.com   
   [adam@eris ~]$   
      
   so from that I conclude that Verizon's DNSs are NOT redirecting traffic.   
     It took me a while to find a nonexistent host, though, as many   
   random-looking domain names got redirected to somewhere else.  I suppose   
   that's intentional by the owners of those domain names and not the   
   "fault" of any DNS.   
      
   Adam   
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