[ale] OT: March 9 Meeting

[hbbs at comcast.net (Jeff Hubbs)]

Could that be an example of DNS poisoning?  I recall something in the 
DNS specs about how null names are to be resolved.  Perhaps a local DNS 
has been tricked to doing something that maps nulls to MS, much as IE 
(at least at one time ) "steals" 404 pages and points people to MSN 
Search instead.

Geoffrey wrote:

>Rev. Johnny Healey wrote:
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>>if firefox can't parse a url, it does a google "I'm feeling Lucky" search.
>>So, if you type in a word, or the name of a site (such as "slashdot") it
>>will sometimes take you where you want to go.  So when it sees "
>>http://http/;//ale.org";, it passes that to google.  The real wtf here is
>>that the first link returned by "http" is microsoft's web site.
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>Exactly.  It's more like returning a negated value.
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