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22-07-2010, 07:15:52 PM
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I got a strange email the other day, it was a lady asking me why she was getting shown a page offering the domain uniqlo.co.uk for sale when she was trying to get on their website. Sure enough she provided a screenshot of my domain holding page, showing uniqlo.co.uk in the page and in the browsers address bar. I assumed that her ISP had a DNS issue or something. Anyway, taking a look at my stats today and there's all sorts of strange type in traffic going to my holding pages. Is it something to do with the way I have my DNS server setup? My DNS server is set up to route any domain I don't specifically setup to that holding page. I can only assume, that somewhere in the DNS chain, my server is being asked to resolve hotmail.co.uk etc?
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22-07-2010, 09:29:07 PM
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Certainly an interesting one. It looks like your dns is not open and I cant think of any scenarios where it would be asked for give a record for hotmail etc.
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22-07-2010, 09:38:21 PM
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Hmmm, anyone heard of an ISP called Ogilvy & Mather? I assume they trade under a different name.
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22-07-2010, 09:42:17 PM
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| | http://www.db.ripe.net/whois?form_ty...rchtext=Ogilvy http://www.ogilvy.co.uk/ogilvy-advertising/ I reckon that's probably them... |
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22-07-2010, 09:55:44 PM
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Actually it's more likely it's this netblock which is in the same group of companies as the organisation matches... http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-199-229-190-0-1 More than likely they've got either your IP address listed as a forwarder on an internal DNS server or a machine is misconfigured with your IP listed as a DNS server which is causing requests for anything to be redirected to your site. I just checked your DNS server and it points me to your site for www.hotmail.co.uk  |
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23-07-2010, 11:39:58 AM
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Emailed the original lady who reported it to me, she works there  She's gone to speak to their IT department.
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