[ILUG] Google weirdness -- gamed or hacked?

[john Moylan]

UL have patched their Bind DNS servers .....right?

2008/9/22 Brendan Halpin <brendan.halpin at ul.ie>

> I have had a result from google that returned a bunch of weird
> links. They all lead to what appear to be fake search engines, and do
> not correspond to the URL displayed.
>
> Some of the destinations have apparently invalid hostnames (e.g.
> find.tj) but resolve locally to 88.151.113.*
>
> Moreover, the search had "site:ul.ie" as a qualifier, so the reported
> URLs are all within UL but are non-existent.
>
> I presume something is broken -- is it my Firefox/IceWeasel, local DNS,
> Google?
>
> Screenshot at http://wivenhoe.ul.ie/~brendan/google.jpg<http://wivenhoe.ul.ie/%7Ebrendan/google.jpg>,
> raw html at
> http://wivenhoe.ul.ie/~brendan/google.html<http://wivenhoe.ul.ie/%7Ebrendan/google.html>
>
> Brendan
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