[Cialug] O.T. centerylink

Justin Richeson neomatrixjr at gmail.com
Fri Jun 19 13:48:52 CDT 2015


As an additional note, CL also seems to force you to use YouTube Caching
servers...I've found youtube to be extremely slow using CL's DNS. OpenDNS
seems to work much better.

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Jonathan A. Kollasch <jakllsch at kollasch.net
> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 04:22:04PM -0700, Dan Hockey wrote:
> > Today while logged in on ebay centerylink seems to have figured out how
> to hyjack any of searches I do on ebay. Is this something I should complain
> to centerylink?  This happens with firefox and chrome.
>
> They push out the redirect.qwest.net addresses as resolvers to
> (at least) residential customers.
>
> resolver.qwest.net contains the set of resolvers and redirecting
> resolvers,
> redirect.qwest.net contains the set of redirecting resolvers.
>
> In short, you want 205.171.3.65 and 205.171.2.65 not
> 205.171.3.25 and 205.171.2.25.
>
> (As a side note, the AAAA records for resolver.qwest.net
> behave as non-redirecting resolvers.)
>
> But at this point I just run my own recursive resolvers.
>
>         Jonathan Kollasch
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