All unknown hosts redirect to search.com.

[kick52]

Hi,

My iBook is connected to the net by internet sharing from my G4 with a wireless card.

It seems that unknown hosts are redirected to search.com. This is not the case for the G4. It is not a problem with Firefox, as it happens with curl and Safari.

For example: going to blablakilpoer123.com displays search.com, though the domain name displayed by Firefox is blablakilpoer123.com.

When I ping blablakilpoer123.com I get a ping from c13-ss-2-lb.cnet.com (search.com is from cnet.com), though when doing 'host blablakilpoer123.com' I get "Host blablakilpoer123.com not found: 3(NXDOMAIN)"

I cannot think of anything installed which should cause this.
I have tried 'sudo lookupd -flushcache', and I have reconnected to the net. This started quite a while ago so I cannot remember clearly what was happening around that period.

Could anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks.

 

[kick52]

Ok, pbx on #macosx has found that something is adding an extra .com to any <bla>.com domain to redirect to cnet owned *.com.com. (Wildcard dns)
Just need to find out what is doing that.