[H-GEN] dns problems

Mon Sep 3 02:29:55 EDT 2001

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On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 04:08:24PM +1000, bmatthewtaylor at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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> yah getting the same here (www.optus.com resolving to  www.salvationarmy.com )
> anz.com is ok for me.

Cool, never thought I would see this for real :-)

oh wait... no DNS poisoning...

[~] edwin at k7>telnet 203.24.68.4 80
Trying 203.24.68.4...
Connected to www.x.net.au.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.optus.com

HTTP/1.0 302 Moved Temporarily
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 06:27:59 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)  (Red Hat/Linux)
Location: http://www.salvationarmy.org/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
X-Cache: MISS from proxy.syd.ihug.com.au
X-Cache-Lookup: MISS from proxy.syd.ihug.com.au:3128
Connection: close

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>302 Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Found</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="http://www.salvationarmy.org/">here</A>.<P>
<HR>
<ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.12 Server at optus.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
</BODY></HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.

just cracked, no ingenious DNS hack. Booring :-)

Edwin, dns rules!

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