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The alternative is your ISP suddenly decides that google.com directs to one of their servers.

• blowski 7y ago
  I'm pretty sure there's more than one alternative.
  • mxuribe 7y ago
    I've heard of handshake...but were you referring to something else? If so, please share, I'm genuinely curious.
    • blowski 7y ago
      Personally, I don’t know what the alternatives are. I barely understand DNS as it is. But I would be surprised if the whole of the tech world can only think of two possible ways of managing it.
      • mxuribe 7y ago
        I hope you're right about the tech world...Because we need valid options.
• antsar 7y ago
  US ISPs already do this in order to inject ads, which is why you have to use 3rd-party DNS servers. Wouldn’t be anything new.
• mxuribe 7y ago
  My isp (Verizon) already"conveniently" provides a landing page whenever I typo a web address(or there us some dns miss, etc.)...so your concept is (sadly) here-and-now, and not a far off thing.
  • ukyrgf 7y ago
    AT&T as well. I still need to put aside a Sunday to figure out how to passthrough their fiber modem/router combo and use my own equipment again.
    • mxuribe 7y ago
      I think I read somewhere that one option is to simply use a different dns provider, but I have not validated this. I, too, need to put aside a day to play with this.
      • yourcssisbroke 7y ago
        yep, it works.
    • jedieaston 7y ago
      Follow these steps to make your router the default host: https://www.att.com/support/smallbusiness/article/smb-internet/KM1188700 https://www.att.com/support/smallbusiness/article/smb-intern... And then plug all of your devices into your router. Easy peasy, albeit not as easy as Comcast’s big bridge mode switch on the modem control panel.