Oct
18
2007
Baidu Hijacking Google DNS in China? Sort of
Posted by: Chris in China, Commentary, TechCheck this bad boy out:
See Techcrunch’s story, as well as this Chinese Developer’s twitter page who allegidly first found out about it, or discovered it.
Techcrunch interestingly points out that both China NetCom and Baidu are listed on the NY Stock Exchange. Interesting… Standards? If you guys want to play with the big boys, you’ve got to act like them and follow the rules. M’kay?
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October 18th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
This is very bad.If the site has been blocked, then the visitors should be told so and should not be referred anywhere else. Very very bad indeed
October 21st, 2007 at 7:50 pm
The bigger issue, I feel is that when the local DNS servers of your CNC/CT (BTN.net.cn) are not able to do a full zone lookup for a domain – which they also don’t give much time for – the system returns an advertising page.
This really sucks!! And is against net standards.
If I enter in http://www.this-site-does-not-exist.com or http://www.when-i-typed-this-i-made-a-typo.com I want to see a REALL 404 error response. As in HTTP 404…. NOT A HTML page of 200 with the phrase 404 pasted into the body and some rip off IE 404 page screen shots.
I have many server scripts and systems that rely on correct http response codes. And when they get a 200 and not a 404 – the whole thing fucks up.
RF