How does the toolbar cope with DNS poisoning?
The toolbar displays the location of a site’s IP address based on the information provided by your computer. If your local DNS cache was “poisoned” such that the Suntrust web site (http://www.suntrust.com) pointed to an IP address located in Russia, then the toolbar would report the site as being located in Russia. The screenshot depicts a poisoned DNS entry set up to direct www.suntrust.com to the Netcraft web site. The toolbar thus reports that the site is hosted in the UK.
