DNS modification?

[Ken Eddings]

At 9:24 AM +1100 1/18/06, Mark Andrews wrote:
> > Hi All,
>>
>> Would be grateful if anyone could help. This is a more detail
>> description to my previous question.
>>
>> The scenario is this:
>> A user on his/her web browser typed an url, browser send url to DNS to
>> check and found it to be  invalid, and the web browser display a error
>> page to the user.
>>
>> Instead of the above process flow, is it possible that we could
>> intercept the invalid result from the DNS server, send user typed url
>> as keywords to a search engine, and display the search results to this
>> user?
>
>	The bad idea fairy has been at work again.  The Internet is not
>	just HTTP.  Other protocols work better when they can get the
>	full range of error codes returned from the DNS.

Maybe VeriSign could sue them for bad idea infringement.

> > At the moment we have a javascript which could send keywords to Yahoo,
>> and Yahoo returns a xml file to us and then we customize our own search
>> page.
>> This is so that we could return it to the user's web browser.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Wilson
>>
>>
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