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| Author: | paulzolo [ Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Virgin Media... |
Just typed in a wonky URL, and instead of my regular browser error page, I get a custom Virgin Media page offering me a search.  This seems to be new - I’ve not seen that until today. Thankfully, I can opt out and that seems to have opted out the whole network, not just this machine, which is good. |
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| Author: | Nick [ Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Virgin Media... |
It's their DNS servers. I use OpenDNS which does something similar, but they're faster and more reliable than most ISPs servers. They also have some error correction in them, so if you put something a bit stupid then it will correct it. For example, if abcdefg.co.uk doesn't exist, it will try abcdefg.com for you automatically. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:45 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Virgin Media... |
+1 for openDNS, sometimes BT's DNS servers are shocking. And don't get me started on Tiscali, TalkTalk et al. |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:25 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Virgin Media... | |||||||||
I bloody hate that. You type one letter wrong and you're redirected to a totally different page so you have to type the whole darned thing in again rather than simply correcting the mistake! |
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| Author: | bally199 [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:52 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Virgin Media... |
Virgin media fcuking suck. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Virgin Media... |
A lot of ISPs seem to be taking this route. T-Online do it as well. They probably get cash for the landing page from the search company... 
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| Author: | Nick [ Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:17 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Virgin Media... | ||||||||||||||||||
I find it quite handy. I don't think it's turned on by default anyway. I think that's just something I've turned on for our account. |
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