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"ISPs providing DNS and caching was a key part of the Pai FCC's reclassification of ISPs as an "information service"..." I thought the same thing when I read a
by 3xblah 7y ago
"ISPs providing DNS and caching was a key part of the Pai FCC's reclassification of ISPs as an "information service"..."
I thought the same thing when I read about that decision. Many try to label DNS as "intrastructure", with the implication that some third party and not the user should have control over it. As an ordinary user, I do not use third party DNS. I will never believe that from a technical standpoint all ordinary users must use third party DNS.
- akira2501 7y agoIs my telephone an "information service" because it has 411?
- thayne 7y agoOr is a phone line an "information service" if the company that provides it delivers a phone book to you periodically?
- Skunkleton 7y agoEven worse: unless you are tunneling your DNS traffic past your ISP somehow, even people who think they are using third party DNS likely aren't.
- 3xblah 7y agoA third party is supplying the answers but not necessarily the third party the user thinks she is using. Sometimes we can bypass this by using non-standard ports for DNS.
- Skunkleton 7y agoI had an ISP that intercepted my requests, and would return bogus (ads) results if the resolution for that particular address failed. Moving off of port 53 was enough to bypass it, but it was easier to just tunnel my DNS requests. The sad thing now is google thinks I need extra captchas because of my weird DNS geo-location. I can't win.