From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 89371 invoked by alias); 16 Mar 2016 14:46:26 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 89350 invoked by uid 89); 16 Mar 2016 14:46:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,LIKELY_SPAM_BODY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=advertising, Unless, nxdomain, hijack X-HELO: mail-ig0-f171.google.com Received: from mail-ig0-f171.google.com (HELO mail-ig0-f171.google.com) (209.85.213.171) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:46:24 +0000 Received: by mail-ig0-f171.google.com with SMTP id ig19so118124860igb.0 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:46:24 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-transfer-encoding; bh=nWhHbLM0vMEkd61amT2XNxjpQBUn+UfBrmSX2H7wMQw=; b=X2bWMEeeSbhbLV602qYWZA0FhE5LTRrsYp0Zr92pigelkJne7cdo9qY4YvAGtHl5YW M3YRga+hY2ygNFRA8blCthwrn6M+gwBshTi5eQrlP1WyZPEy38WKxWls9GO+QG+hMJak iBT510GxteNQlgv6iQrgupslmUog0cgwvaJPtpxdlGT1QK3ifF7OH7zfJRRw3VzVxWVl sRfq0dvwORIpPrdO010Vki1w7dWB2Uclg7ek4oeEEZFejyODZKNb3M7UTcy/WPGGDtIC /f4qmZzxUflzM+wBbc/9BkvJXb9LLdX9jlRDa85cZJg9Ncd75GJ2tw2+kWFcsEeCnS/Q 0hkw== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJJS/8ih2KMoSQfIWeg1J2Yi17ZR03gtE6u/JjAyzWGhmSXU8Y3o+HK2LaUv955rqA== X-Received: by 10.50.79.168 with SMTP id k8mr6038504igx.55.1458139582426; Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:46:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.0.9] (d27-96-48-76.nap.wideopenwest.com. [96.27.76.48]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id o2sm1759799igv.0.2016.03.16.07.46.21 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 16 Mar 2016 07:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: ctrl-c doesn't reliably kill ping To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <56E6F25A.7070000@gmx.de> <56E75B3E.7020102@farance.com> <54382838.20160315140038@yandex.ru> <20160315114317.GI29016@dinwoodie.org> From: cyg Simple Message-ID: <56E971D4.7050902@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2016 14:46:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160315114317.GI29016@dinwoodie.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-03/txt/msg00316.txt.bz2 On 3/15/2016 7:43 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: > On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 02:00:38PM +0300, Andrey Repin wrote: >> Greetings, Frank Farance! >> >>> A little digression, so you understand the background ... The workstation I am >>> doing this from is connected to a Verizon router to their FIOS network. Now the >>> reason I mention this is that the router's DNS (via DHCP to my workstation) is >>> 192.168.1.1, which I presume is forwarded from the router upstream to Verizon's >>> DNS caches. So if I type the URL http://something.that.doesnt.exist in my >>> browser, rather than getting a Hostname Not Found error (at the name resolution >>> level), it actually loads up a page saying "something.that.doesnt.exist" isn't >>> found and then I have a Yahoo set of search results on things matching the >>> broken hostname. >> >>> So all of this is normal ISP stuff: they actually resolve unknown addresses to >>> their own website (which is 90.242.140.21). >> >> This is NOT "normal", this is a violation of protocol. >> Whoever encounter such behavior should call their ISP and tell them to stop >> doing it. > > It's both normal and a violation of protocol -- a lot of DNS servers, > will replace an NXDOMAIN response will "hijack" the query and return > something that punts the user onto a search page with advertising. > This should probably be moved to cygwin-talk but ... If a violation becomes normal then it is no longer a violation but an accepted practiced exception. Unless a rule is enforced the accepted practiced exception becomes the rule. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple