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Injuncting DNS providers is pissing in the wind. If MPAA and the gang want to prevent access to content they allege is "pirated", they have to go for the author
by denton-scratch 4y ago
Injuncting DNS providers is pissing in the wind. If MPAA and the gang want to prevent access to content they allege is "pirated", they have to go for the authoritative DNS servers, which are likely under the control of the alleged pirates.
If they go after resolvers, users can simply switch to a trustworthy resolver, such as an unbound instance on their very own Raspi. And they'll probably get a performance lift out of having a local resolver.
- traverseda 4y agoHow long do you think platforms are going to allow users to change their DNS settings for?
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoYou can already catch DNS requests on your router (Mikrotik can do that) and reroute them where you need, i.e. very handful to intercept .lan (i.e. iotdevice.lan -> 192.168.0.123), so you don't need to remember the IP address.
- traverseda 4y agoAll major operating systems have support of DNS over https (encrypted and not interceptable). Microsoft is including and activating a VPN in microsoft edge. Android already has hard coded DNS servers that don't respect DHCP autodiscovery for certain tasks.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y agoThen force the system to fallback on regular DNS by blocking target IP addresses of those solution.
- denton-scratch 4y ago> Android already has hard coded DNS servers that don't respect DHCP autodiscovery for certain tasks. Is that so? I'll have to see about that.