The Internet is broken in China
Saturday, November 11th, 2006For a while now I’ve been aware of this situation, but thinking it would pass I didn’t do anything. Well, it hasn’t, so I thought I’d start sharing what I see.
Beijing Telecom has broken the Internet
At various places, one or more of the DNS servers you get from, e.g., wifi hotspots, will be configured to always resolve any domain name lookup. That means typos like www.doesnotexist11.com will resolve.
What do they resolve to? They resolve to IP addresses for websites of advertisers. It’s most likely a pay-per-referrer business model.
