Firefox using google proxy WTF?

Christoph Höger choeger at cs.tu-berlin.de
Sat Feb 13 22:00:31 UTC 2010


Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 22:05 +0100 schrieb Christoph Höger:
> Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 21:55 +0100 schrieb Roberto Ragusa:
> > Christoph Höger wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 13.02.2010, 19:43 +0100 schrieb Roberto Ragusa:
> > 
> > >> I don't know how it happened. Does it go away if you restart Firefox?
> > >> Does your ISP do some authentication using DNS hijacking?
> > >> The Firefox DNS cache appears to be polluted.
> > > 
> > > Is there some way to check this? I mean have a look at firefox' dns
> > > cache?
> > > Since wget and konqueror worked fine, I'd say that my ISPs DNS works as
> > > it should.
> > 
> > I don't know if the Firefox DNS cache is printable.
> > In any case, it is lost if you restart the browser.
> > Does your problem happen every time? With every site?
> 
> No. It happened twice on two different systems. I cannot reproduce this
> strange behavior.
> 
> Is there a simple way to log http requests by firefox?

Apparently it is a problem with my new cisco router. 
The built in dns-proxy must do something really weird (how hard can it
be to run dnsmasq?)

http://forums.linksysbycisco.com/linksys/board/message?board.id=Wireless_Routers&message.id=167341

It was pure luck that wget and konqueror worked.


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