[pmwiki-users] Error message for wrong subdomain getting subverted

[Sandy]

Thanks for the idea! I try it out when the holidays are over.

Quick note just before we head out.

Husband looked into it further. Turns it's worse than I thought. As he 
wrote elsewhere:

<quote>
This goes beyond web traffic. If you use ping, telnet, ftp, ssh or other 
internet applications and mis-type the host name, rogers will return a 
false result, instead of an invalid host message.

If I try to ping someserver.mydomain.com, Rogers DNS service returns the 
IP address of their search page, claiming that THEIR server is part of 
my domain.
</quote>

Grrrrr.

This affects all domain owners, and any Rogers Canada customers. I 
suspect other ISPs will start to do the same thing. We'll add our voices 
to the formal complaints on both fronts.

Sandy





DaveG wrote:
> If you can get your host to setup 'wildcard subdomains' then you can handle
> any request for a subdomain through .htaccess, forwarding to PmWiki, if you
> choose, for a specific error message.
> 
>  ~ ~ Dave
> 
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:03:03 -0400, Sandy <sandy at onebit.ca> wrote:
>> I just learned that my ISP (Rogers Canada) is replacing the "subdomain 
>> not found" message with advertisements.
>>
>> Other ISPs are probably doing the same.
>>
>> (The "domain not found" advertisements at least come with a "domain not 
>> found" message.)
>>
>> Is there a way I can give a page of my own choosing rather than the 
>> error code the ISP is grabbing? I suspect it can be done with .htaccess 
>> , but that's beyond my skills.
>>
>> I already have three subdomains working in a pmwiki farm. With 
>> CleanURLs, they show as subdomain.mydomain.ca/Group/Page .
>>
>> We use CPanel.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Sandy
>>
>> PS If I don't thank you for your reply immediately, it's because 
>> tomorrow we leave on vacation.
>>
>>
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