In regards to Sprint/Embarq/Centurylink hijacking your ptr records, not really, they never gave them up to you in the first place. I’ve had this issue myself, but knew the proper way to get this done was by following the hierarchy set out by IANA. This led me to looking through soa and txt records until I found the IP services department of Sprint and an e-mail address. Upon sending an e-mail inquiry, I was told that even business dsl circuits cannot have their ptr records changed to the users needs, even with the $20/month I was paying for a block of 8 statics.

The reasoning I will assume that is behind this is that in the Terms of Service for DSL, that I do not really own the IP addresses and even if I rent static addresses they are not guaranteed to be for me forever. I once had a day of discovery about all of this when my internet service did all of a sudden stop working. When I called into sprint they told me they had reassigned my block to another area and provisioned by 8 different ones (thanks for the forewarning ****ers).

Back to IP services response though, they said they only adjusted ptr records for circuit users (I’ll assume they dummed it down for me because they thought I wouldn’t know what a T carrier/Frame Relay… would be) and they didn’t even give me switched (i.e. circuit switched) so they over dummed it down to where I could make no sense of it, other than to assume.

Anyway… that’s my have of it. In general, you have to be paying 10x as much as your neighbor for less bandwidth to get these fun services. God knows I would have setup my own SMTP server and so on if only I could have gotten a reduced rate on what a T-carrier package entails while in high school.

and I don’t love SQL but I guess I have to type the required word anyway. I do love mySQL the open source alternative.

I went to look on Google and somehow the OpenDNS marketing machine has gotten to nearly everyone.

This violates legislation in the United States. They essentially hacked into my conversation with DNS and hit me with a ‘man-in-the-middle’ attack. This stopped me dead in my tracks while I was recovering a server from backup, upgrading a machine and commissioning a new server on my network here. I was not sure what was wrong at first. I happened to be testing uploads on the Internet with a client as well as all the other stuff. Even now I am not sure who is responsible. There are four devices between me and OpenDNS and four or more other companies involved. Who is the culprit? I still do not know.

This is beyond wrong. I have the option of simply setting DNS to my own DNS servers. That is what I will be doing, pronto. However, that only helps me work around something evil. It does not remove that evil.

People do this stuff because the law does not stop them and they make a net profit. That’s what drives SPAM, of which this DNS hijacking is just another lame variant. They KNOW beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are doign a bad thing. They will never be stopped unless they are financially punished.

I am easy to find on the Internet by my name. If you are starting a class-action suit against these guys, count me in. I have lost a bunch of time on this and that takes the bread off of my table.