[Cialug] DNS Hijacking

[Nathan Stien]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:23 PM, Josh More<morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:
> In short, this sort of thing may be contrary to the spirit of the 'net,
> but if it's easily bypassed by those that it annoys, who cares?

A scenario about who might care, from the comments on the /. article:

You're IT for a business. You have employees who check their e-mail
from home, accessing your stuff via a split tunnel VPN.

The computer tries to resolve internalmail.company.com, and normally
this should fail, causing the computer to try the VPN's DNS server.

Instead, your employee's computer gets Comcast's search page server.
Their mail client times out.

You get inundated with tech support calls.

- Nathan