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ubiquity package

  1. Bug #760884
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 760884

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Dan Kegel (dank) wrote :

This happens here, too, if my ISP's "name redirect service" is enabled.
http://dnssearch.rr.com/faq.php
Disabling that makes the problem go away!

So the bug is that the installer is getting fooled by the DNS server's fake response.
Before trusting the DNS service, it should do a random lookup
that should fail. If it succeeds, you know the service is lying.
Here's an untested patch against the previous version of ubiquity showing
one way to implement this.