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Article ID: 187117
Last modified date: Wed Jan 31 15:33 2007

This article contains information on how to opt out of the Earthlink/Yahoo! domain error page.

DNS Opt Out Servers

EarthLink recently began routing erroneous domain requests to a custom EarthLink/Yahoo search page rather than to the standard The domain you requested could not be found error page that most browsers show. Instead, the browser will route to http://earthlink-help.net/?d=error_earthlink-bf&q=(bad url here). The page will offer suggestions to other domains you might be attempting to access, search categories and a Yahoo! search field.

In rare circumstances DNS error page routing may cause problems for some EarthLink customers running various speciality programs or services. As a work around, EarthLink provides two DNS addresses that do not route to our EarthLink/Yahoo! error page. These DNS addresses can be used as a means of opting out of the error re-routing service. Either of these below IP addresses can be primary or secondary:

207.69.188.172
207.69.188.171

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