On Tue, 2021-01-19 at 15:08 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > Whenever I mistype a URL, > it gets turned into food for Midcontinent's search engine. > What is really annoying is that the back > button does not take me back to what I typed. > Also, the search results rarely includes the site I wanted. > > My suspicion is that this is done at least partly through DNS > corruption. > Anyone know for sure? When you type in an address your browser first tries to find its IP address, then it connects to that IP and asks whatever's at that IP for the hostname you're wanting to view. That IP lookup can be done through your browser requesting DNS lookups, or if there's a proxy involved, the proxy can instigate the lookup. These days there can also be DNS queries through HTTP, and I'm not sure how you'd bypass this kind of issue in that situation. > I'm running F33 connected directly to Midco's modem/router. > Assuming DNS corruption is at least part of the issue, > how, if at all, do I bypass Midco's DNS? You can run your own DNS server, though that presumes your ISP won't intercept its attempts to resolve domain names. There are some relatively pain-free packages you can install to do this for you. And you need to configure your network to use your own DNS server. You can configure your network to use an outside server (such as google's at 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, and there's plenty of other open DNS servers). Again, that presumes that your ISP won't intercept attempts to consult it. Also, when using an outside DNS server, it can be a problem if you want to resolve domain names within your LAN (if you have a network of computers and other network devices). You have to do that another way. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1160.11.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Dec 18 16:34:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
