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Earthlink Offers Alternate DNS Without "Dead DNS"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-resolve-my-names dept.

Joshua Flory writes, "In response to the story about Earthlink and their version of 'Site Finder', I learned today that Earthlink has provided alternate DNS servers that will remain outside of their 'dead DNS' service. However, this is a completely unsupported service, which begs the question, WHY? Everyone can gain access to public DNS servers, or create their own. The point is that people wanted DNS servers supported by EL that do not include this dead DNS service." Sounds like it's time for Earthlink users to check out OpenDNS.com... they make it easy to turn off the bad-URL behavior.

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  1. Islamic Clerics declare Fatwa against BLOCKQUOTE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    MUDRAGISTAN (Reuters) - Islamic Clerics announced today that due to the incapacity of the islamic mind to understand the difference between an opinion and a quotation, henceforth all use of the BLOCKQUOTE tag in HTML shall be met with unyielding and divine retribution.

    The BLOCKQUOTE tag, as introduced with the HTML 2.0 specification in 1994, has been used on websites throughout the world to signify that the text contained within is a quotation from an external source. However, due to an inability for islamics to grow the fuck up and understand basic communicative syntax, they now believe it is their holy right to murder anyone they want to just because one person quoted someone else within context.

    This antithesis of freedom is a common theme running throughout all islamic interaction with civilised society. Rampaging islamic mobs worldwide have burned effigies of Dave Raggett, creator of HTML, alongside effigies of President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI. Police measures are now in place to put everyone who ever had a Myspace page or Geocities account into hiding.

    Inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, was unavailable for comment. Which is probably just as well as we don't want to get bombed by the raghead fuckwits just for quoting him.

  2. umm by Foo2rama · · Score: 2, Funny

    Who uses earthlink anymore anyway...

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    ---In a time of Chimpanzees I was a Monkey.
  3. There isn't a sign saying DNS... by Rotund+Prickpull · · Score: 1, Funny

    ... because storing dead niggers ain't my fucking business!

  4. Moo by Chacham · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better yet, let everyone have a say.

    Let's make DNS a wiki!

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    Have you read my journal today?
  5. wait wait wait.... by numbski · · Score: 2, Funny

    You mean George W. Bush is *wrong* about something.

    Someone get me a glass of water. I think I'm going to faint and fall off of my segway!

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    Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).

  6. Do You Say Wed-Ness-Day? by finiteSet · · Score: 2, Funny
    You know, pronouncing nuclear as nucular is still wrong, even if everyone does it.
    Dammit man, I cannot understand this "modern English" garbage language you are speaking in. I don't care if everyone uses modern English today - Proto-Indo-European is still the true tongue and every word you speak is a crime against language purity. Oh yeah, and get off my lawn!
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    If we start buying CDs then the terrorists have already won.
  7. Re:What's the catch? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Same way the change bank does.

    Volume.

    (old SNL reference, but one of my favorites.)

  8. Re:IT DOES NOT BEG THE QUESTION. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Languages evolve.

    Naturalment! Fig newton in a blender, fishbowl! But when you garble-zargle warble zous, igfrentic zlendish comprende nonsumus totem.

    And when you don't, people can actually understand what you mean.