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Opting Out of Verizon's DNS Services

Submitted by alex on Wed, 11/04/2009 - 14:53.

Got weird error trying to access www.google.com.

No Googles!

Co-worker helped me figure out this was Verizon's 'DNS Assistance' messing up.
http://www.verizon.net/central/vzc.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=vzc_help...

Tried their 'opt out' option. Visiting a non-existent domain brings up an incredibly lame error page. The page you see below is HTML copy/pasted from the standard Internet Explorer page (including image references to 'C:\...'), with some Verizon links slapped on the end of it. Wow.

Verizon DNS Assistance Fail.

What the heck?

I switched to 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2, but there are plenty of other public DNS providers. This is kinda funny since 4.2.2.1 is also a Verizon server, but it doesn't have this annoying 'helpful' feature.

http://www.tech-faq.com/public-dns-servers.shtml

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