On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Bill wrote:
>> Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 14:27:48 -0500 (EST)
>> From: Eben King <eben01@verizon.net>
>>
>> When I go to a web site that would ordinarily give me "no such host" or
>> similar, my ISP (Verizon) redirects me to wwwz.websearch.verizon.net. I'd
>> much prefer to get a normal error, so I can correct the URL and try again.
>> How do I ch*nge this behavior? I entered an addr*ss of 0.0.0.0 inti
>> /etc/hosts. Now the browser tries to go to wwwz.websearch.verizon.net and
>> then gets an eror; that's worse, as the erroneous URL isn't in plain text
>> in the error page's URL.
> would possibly changing your dns servers to open dns fix this?
It would. What is that address?
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