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ATT DNS Error Assist

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:08 pm
by johncroscigno
I have sonic fiber delivered through AT&T. How can I disable this dns error assist site that shows up when I type a malformed URL.
The page I get redirected to is: http://dnserrorassist.att.net/

Re: ATT DNS Error Assist

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 11:05 am
by jacob.karinen
Hi John,

I haven't been able to test this myself, but I will tonight when I get home. I found this link: https://gist.github.com/CollinChaffin/2 ... 502720ef00

Which gives a pretty concise walk through on disabling the DNS Error assist.

Re: ATT DNS Error Assist

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:41 pm
by johncroscigno
The instructions are based around logging into an AT&T account - which I don't have. What this suggests to me is that while Sonic is re-selling AT&T fiber, AT&T maintains the control over this DNS re-routing, and since I don't have an AT&T account, I can't opt out. What is Sonic's default DNS? Maybe I can set my AT&T supplied router to point to that DNS instead of whatever the router defaults to via AT&T's firmware?

Re: ATT DNS Error Assist

Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 5:04 pm
by bobrk
Sonic doesn't support using their DNS with the resold ATT service. I found that the ATT DNS was slow and unreliable so I use OpenDNS, other people use Google.