Strange title to this post I know but stay with me, have you ever noticed how some Irish websites only like it when you type in www instead of just the domain. For example typing in aib.ie you get the above site (not AIB’s website), but typing in www.aib.ie takes you to the actual AIB Bank website!
Does anyone know what causes this strange behaviour with websites, I remember also RTE had this problem but seems to be ok now. I also don’t like this happing for a bank, has someone else registered aib.ie?
22. August 2008 at 9:09 am
From what I heard there systems were in meltdown, there atm machines also went down, but they now claim to be back up and working, There has been a large dns vul recently which I first though might be happening.
Other reports say problems with bt.
Scary for a bank, with every thing that has been happening with stolen personal details all over the news,nothing on the aib website about the issue, will they just sweep it under the rug!
2. September 2008 at 11:04 pm
John,
http://aib.ie works perfectly fine and redirects to http://www.aib.ie. AFAIK, this redirect has been happening for quite some time…I’ve often accessed the site.
The “meltdown” issue regarding the ATMs as referred to by Barry was well before the date (mentioned above) and was contributed to BT I believe.
Regarding the DNS vulnerability (presented by Dan Kaminsky at Black Hat), if you tried to access http://www.aib.ie but were redirected to a false site – that’s an issue with your ISP DNS servers, not the desination site’s (AIB’s in this case). The attack was based on a lack of randomness on DNS query ids on DNS connections originating from the client.
3. September 2008 at 8:54 am
Hi Fred, yes it is working now for me, I teseted on two differen ISPs at the time one of them O2, thanks for the info, the site in question seemed more like a parking site than a flase site, i think. But again cheers for the info