Telstra Infiltration?

[Scott Sinclair]

On Sat 19 Jan, 2008 at 23:38:45 +1100, Shane Handley wrote:
> For example, when i enter 'evil' into the address bar and hit enter, I
> am redirected to:
> 
> http://www6.websearch2.bigpond.com/search?qo=evil&rn=gep_LPmUlQciExp
> 
> When i enter 2 words, google seems to show up.
> 

When you type in one word, firefox will try and resolve it first (because it
could be a valid hostname).

I would assume that it is resolving, and telstra has added some type of
"root record" to try and add an automated search facility.

This is the reason also it doesn't work for two words.

Regards,
Scott