Verizon’s Site Finder redux got you down?

<cr:code lang=“bash”> aphyr@unstable:~$ dig foobar

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> foobar ;; global options: printcmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 36752 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION: ;foobar. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION: foobar. 0 IN A 66.150.2.134

;; Query time: 46 msec ;; SERVER: 68.238.128.12#53(68.238.128.12) ;; WHEN: Sat Aug 18 18:54:10 2007 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 40 </cr:code>

Verizon’s DNS servers now helpfully remap DNS queries for some types of nonexistent domains to a helper page: vznassist.infospace.com. That’s great, except for a few small problems, like breaking the internet. It looks like they haven’t rolled it out to all customers yet, since my friends on FIOS still have normal DNS. For the meantime, I’ve switched to Level 3’s (anycast) servers: 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2, which still return the proper NXDOMAIN response. :-/