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By lmacvittie
via devcentral.f5.com
Published: Oct 01 2008 / 10:58

If you don't know the difference between HTTP and DNS, don't blog about it
Pet peeve time: screaming technical inaccuracies in blog posts do a huge disservice to the root problem being discussed. If you're going to discuss hijacking DNS errors for the purposes of advertising, then please do so - don't call them DNS "error pages" (there are no such things) or refer to them as "404 errors".
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eelmore replied ago:

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Actually, most browsers DO provide DNS error pages--they are just not served by a web server. Also, it can be said that such a DNS error page (which does exist) has been hijacked when a device like the one in the article actually inserts content where a domain actually does not exist. It doesn't have to come from a webserver to be a "page" and a page is effectively hijacked if it is bypassed all-toegether--in this case, referring to the DNS error page that should be shown to the user without outside interference.

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