I've noticed that ISPs have started hijacking DNS errors and show their own error pages instead (complete with annoying graphics and ads). Is there any way to fix this, or are they doing it on their network outside of my control?
Note that I've not installed any of their software, and it is very much network dependent. I've seen it with Verizon FiOS and Comcast.
You can opt out of Comcast's DNS hijacking
Verizon simply instructs you to change your DNS server
EDIT: That was very odd, I could not for the life of me get that VZ link to work, so I did a tinyurl and that works.
The quickest way is probably to put OpenDNS's IPs in your router as its DNS server-
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
You should then see OpenDNS's page instead of your ISP's. (I would trust OpenDNS more!)
(You can also do this directly on your computer, however you may loose the ability to access other computers on your lan via their FQDN / Computer name)
Other than that, the only solution I can think of is setting up your own DNS server that has no recursion apart from the root servers - but I don't think you would want to do this.
For FiOS, you can just change the last octet of the Verizon-supplied DNS server from 12 to 14.
If you are using OpenDNS, you can to create a (free) account and opt out of the error page.
