On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Kim Davies wrote:

 > Quoting Malcolm Miles on Tuesday November 23, 2004:
[..]
 > | How did they think they were going to do that? Perhaps they could
 > | filter it from BigPond users but not everybody is a BigPond user.
 > 
 > Well, they are publishing fake records for the gay porn site to their
 > customers, thusly:
 > 
 > ;; ANSWER SECTION:
 > caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      A       139.134.5.153
 > 
 > ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
 > caseydonovan.com.       1800    IN      NS      ns5.bigpond.net.au.
[..]

 > This of couse raises interesting ethical questions about an ISPs right
 > to peform man-in-the-middle spoofing on your Internet traffic.

Indeed it does.  At least they didn't go as far as also poisoning the
telstra.net forwarders, so only bigpond customers are 'protected': 

;; ANSWER SECTION:
caseydonovan.com.       1D IN A         198.104.148.252

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
caseydonovan.com.       1D IN NS        ns2.strategicsolutions.net.
caseydonovan.com.       1D IN NS        ns3.strategicsolutions.net.
caseydonovan.com.       1D IN NS        ns4.strategicsolutions.net.
caseydonovan.com.       1D IN NS        ns1.strategicsolutions.net.

 > Roll on DNSSEC I say, and this will be a thing of the past.

Holding your breath, Kim?

Cheers, Ian