[Discuss] My Bank's Web Site is Behaving Oddly

[John Hall]

Updates can take quite a long time to be disseminated, and also some DNS
servers are just flat out terrible.
Are you using your ISP's DNS ?  Is it comcast?
A few years ago I ditched comcast DNS for Google public DNS servers. I
configure this in the router. IP v4 addresses are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.
The IP v6 addresses are at
https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using#important_before_you_start
This made a very noticeable difference in latency

Also at that point comcast was doing wacky browser jacking that really
infuriated me. I believe this was on domains that were not found. I don't
imagine they are still doing the browser jacking ... at least I hope not!
If they are though it is a clear sign you are using their dns.
I believe I could not get a google search .. instead it would return a
comcast search if the domain was not found.


On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:31 PM, Joe Polcari <joe at polcari.com> wrote:

> More than likely they got their domain back and DNS is updating
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> On 5/4/16, 5:28 PM, "Discuss on behalf of Kent Borg" <discuss-bounces+joe=
> polcari.com at blu.org on behalf of kentborg at borg.org> wrote:
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> >On 05/04/2016 04:43 PM, Kent Borg wrote:
> >> The domain leaderbank.com is acting odd for me...
> >>
> >> Last Friday the URL I paste to go to my bank
> >> (https://www.leaderbank.com) quit working. After some futzing, I tried
> >> switching form https and doing just http, and I got what looks like a
> >> parking page. I looked at the whois and the domain got renewed on
> >> Friday, and the holder is cloaked/private.
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> >> I called the bank and said their domain expired, and it was news to
> >> the person I talked to. Today, I look again, and it all looks the same.
> >
> >Except, as I do more experiments, the various combinations started to
> >work. It is almost as if someone was watching an error log and fixing
> >the bugs I was exposing. Was it a good guy or a bad guy?
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> >-kb, the Kent who still wonders about the domain being private and the
> >certificate looking completely generic.
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> >P.S. And I got my VPN working on my new computer.
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