Telstra Infiltration?

[Shane Handley]

On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 11:54 +1100, Scott Sinclair wrote: 

> On Sun 20 Jan, 2008 at 07:57:48 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote:
> > Shane Handley wrote:
> > > Can anyone rid me of these bastards? I get stabby whenever I see that
> > > logo. Or is this something I will be forced to deal with as a BigPond
> > > user?
> > 
> > 1) Install BIND on your system (sudo apt-get install bind9).
> 
> Wow .. there is *no* reason at all to install bind?
> 
> Did anyone read the page that he provided?
> http://websearch.bigpond.com/bpdnshelp.do
> 
> All it does is change the default DNS Servers.. This surely is much
> easier
> to do with NetworkManager, then to go to the extents of installing
> bind ..
> 
> Regards,
> Scott
> 

I've tried adding those DNS servers in NetworkManager but it does not
seem to work. It still redirects to a BigPond search page.

Using OpenDNS addresses works, but I still have to deal with the openDNS
search for single words.

Just another reason to avoid Telstra I guess.

Regards,

Shane Handley