I think the proper term is DNS hijacking. Corruption generally implies accidental in computer terms, not by design. CenturyLink also does dns hijacking. Not sure how many other slimy ISP's there are out there. MidCo is my other ISP choice where I am. CenturyLink sends me to an amazingly bad Mediacom search engine and I have not figured out why the dns servers that CenturyLink gives me via dhcp send me to mediacom (a cable company), and apparently a competitor, unless Mediacom is paying a bit for each lookup or providing the dns service. You can either use someone else dns servers that do not pull this crap, or go to the dns via https via the browser. On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 3:08 PM Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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? > > 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? > > The problem seems not unique to Midco or F33: > My girlfriend has the same problem with CenturyLink and Ubuntu. > They send her to yahoo. > > -- > Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > "Sorry but your password must contain an uppercase letter, a number, > a haiku, a gang sign, a heiroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." > -- someeecards > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
