20091204

DNS forgery by UPC

I made a typo when connecting a fresly installed Filezilla client to my domain at staesit.nl

This is what the Filezilla log said:
Status: Resolving domain staesit.nll
Status: Connecting with 67.63.50.51:21...
The TLD nll doesn't even exist! Oh crap whats this?

How then does filezilla end up with to this IP? Hostname of said IP resolves as:
upcnlassist-c.infospace.com
Aha! My (one week lived) provider UPC.nl is in on it.

My provider is doing something i don't want it to. Seems like it assumes identity of staesit.nll. Stuff like this just makes me mad and sad at the same time. :( DNS forgery should be banned.

I won´t even start on the searchpage that now pops up on misspelled domains.. wait. Actually i will exactly that as it seems like this is actually causing said behavior.

> ping zoek.upc.nl
Pinging assist.infospace.com [67.63.50.57] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.63.50.57: bytes=32 time=98ms TTL=243