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His blog post pays no mention of users whose DNS queries are being redirected. Isn't that a privacy concern? Hotels and ISPs sometimes set up captive portals
by 3xblah 8y ago
His blog post pays no mention of users whose DNS queries are being redirected. Isn't that a privacy concern?
Hotels and ISPs sometimes set up captive portals that intercept and redirect port 53 to their own choice of DNS servers.
As such, users might want memorise the addresses of some resolvers that listen on non-standard ports (not port 53).
A user behind one of these captive portals who pings any of the resolvers in this blog post will not be pinging those servers; she will be pinging the hotel/ISP's chosen DNS servers and she may be none the wiser.
- Tor3 8y agoIn a hotel I always first thing direct everything through a VPN server (work or home, depending on what I want to do). Some hotels block UDP, in that case I switch the VPN to go via TCP port 443. But some hotels (really!) block port 443.. fortunately not that many anymore.
- 3xblah 8y agoWhen you use a home VPN server, is the VPN server running on a computer located at your home and reachable on the open internet? If yes, do you have fixed address or do you use dynamic DNS?
- Tor3 8y agoI could have set it up at home (the address is stable), but I have a server on a hosting facility which I use as my "home central".