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Changing DNS Entry Causes Redirect To searchportal.information.com

Posted on January 21, 2009

I recently purchased a domain name from GoDaddy.com. For about a week it was forwarding to a different address with no issues.

Tonight I changed the nameservers from GoDaddy’s redirect servers to my hosting company’s. At that point, going to my new domain simply yielded a 404, since the domain was not yet set up on my hosting company’s server (I use HostGator if that helps).

Now after I’ve set up the new DNS entry to point to my server’s IP all requests for the domain are being 301 redirected to searchportal.information.com. Is this a DNS change hijack? HostGator support said it’s temporary and I should wait the standard 24-48 hours for name change propogation, but I see that it’s already getting the correct IP when I send a request.

Here’s a sample wget log (I’m omitting names/ips for now unless we need them to figure this out):

-----@pez:temp$ wget -----.com
--23:25:19--  http://------.com
           => `index.html'
Resolving -----.com... 74.52.##.##
Connecting to -----.com[74.52.##.#]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanantly
Location: http://searchportal.information.com/?a_id=47368&domainname=referer_detect [following]
--23:25:19--  http://searchportal.information.com/?a_id=47368&domainname=referer_detect
           => `index.html?a_id=47368&domainname=referer_detect'
Resolving searchportal.information.com... 208.73.212.12
Connecting to searchportal.information.com[208.73.212.12]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://searchportal.information.com?epl=00500042UVsPWVALXVUMVV8KVgMJQQxVEl4MWxkCDlgTWWddVVgBA1EOAQ [following]
--23:25:19--  http://searchportal.information.com/?epl=00500042UVsPWVALXVUMVV8KVgMJQQxVEl4MWxkCDlgTWWddVVgBA1EOAQ
           => `index.html?epl=00500042UVsPWVALXVUMVV8KVgMJQQxVEl4MWxkCDlgTWWddVVgBA1EOAQ.1'
Connecting to searchportal.information.com[208.73.212.12]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [text/html]
    [ <=>                                                                                                               ] 35,628        --.--K/s
23:25:19 (155.86 MB/s) - `index.html?epl=00500042UVsPWVALXVUMVV8KVgMJQQxVEl4MWxkCDlgTWWddVVgBA1EOAQ.1' saved [35628]

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