New Jersey's Cablevision Hijacks DNS Error Pages

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 30, 2008 @12:58AM from the fine-line-between-service-and-serviced dept.

Selikoff writes "I just noticed Cablevision's Optimum Online service has begun hijacking DNS Error pages with, you guessed it, ad-supported results. Aside from hurting the underlying stability of the Internet, there have been instances where hackers have used such tools against customers. I know Road Runner customers have had to deal with this for a couple months now, although at least they have an outlet to turn it off." Update: 09/30 13:18 GMT by T : Note, as several readers have pointed out, this hijacking is of DNS errors rather than 404 errors as originally presented.

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Re:Give me a break... by geminidomino · 2008-09-30 01:50 · Score: 5, Interesting

Site finder was slightly different from this, in its scope. I doubt ICANN will get involved
Verisign abused it's stewardship of the DNS Root servers (i.e. the Nameserver's nameservers, those servers that every(?) nameserver contacts to find out who to query...etc...).
In other words, if your ISP is doing something douchy like this, you can use another nameserver/run your own. That was not really an option with sitefinder