Today I made a typo.
The fact in itself is unimpressive but lo and behold there was a web page there at slashd9t.org, who would have thought a crafty spammer had gone through all that trouble to… WAIT A MINUTE.
Big and proud they caught my eye the crest and name of my very own internet provider. The bastards had redirected my failed DNS request to a bloody search page!
I don’t want that. OpenDNS apparently does something similar which annoys me even more, since I wanted to switch there on a whim.
I found this page describing how to circumvent internet censorship by changing your DNS server: http://www.ccc.de/censorship/dns-howto/.
I’ll accept that as a welcome side-effect.
Meh again…
I am pretty sure you knew how to change your DNS Server before.
Sure I did, I even knew that some providers redirect misguided DNS lookups, I just didn’t know KBD does.
And sure, I know how to change the DNS server on my computerns, I just wanted to change it for my OpenWRT router, which involved slipping it to dnsmasq, which normally uses the ‘upstream’ DNS servers, e.g. the ones announced by KBD.
After I had done that with the opendns servers I realized, that they too do redirect lookups without results, so I had to look for other, trustworthy dns servers and found the mentioned list
Now anyone who joins my wlan gets non-redirecting, non-censoring dns servers. I worte that post mostly because I was ticked, that both KBD and opendns do hijacking…