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Tried Quad9. Torrent sites blocked. Removed Quad9 and switched back to Cisco (dnscrypt was a requirement). I cannot tolerate censorship when I'm a grown up adul

Tried Quad9. Torrent sites blocked. Removed Quad9 and switched back to Cisco (dnscrypt was a requirement). I cannot tolerate censorship when I'm a grown up adult. I'm 90% sure this is Quad9 choice and not influenced by Sony.

waboremo 4y ago
Searched a bunch of (popular) torrent sites and some of their proxies on https://www.quad9.net/result https://www.quad9.net/result and they are all unblocked. Which ones got blocked for you? You could also use Quad9's unsecured DNS to check if it was blocked by their list or if something else was going on.
justsomehnguy 4y ago
You can run your own resolver
- flangola7 4y ago
  What if root servers just take it down? Retract the domain registration, etc.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    Then noone could resolve it, including Quad9, CloudFlare, Cisco, Google etc.
  - mynameisvlad 4y ago
    Your resolver can resolve any domain to any IP. As long as it’s a static IP and the server is still there, you’d still have access as long as you had that mapping.
  - cesarb 4y ago
    > What if root servers just take it down? Root servers only control the mapping up to the TLD. That is, they for instance know the nameservers for ".br", but they know nothing about the nameservers for ".com.br", or about the domains below that. If your domain is "example.com.br", the nameservers which could "just take it down" are the nameservers for ".com.br", not the root nameservers. In the same way, the root servers are completely unrelated to domain registrations (other than pointing to nameservers which know about them).
- josephcsible 4y ago
  Doing so is usually pointless. Either your ISP isn't evil, in which case there's no need since you could just use theirs, or your ISP is evil, in which case they'll hijack all of the recursive queries that your own resolver would need to make.
  - justsomehnguy 4y ago
    Note: you can run your own resolver not at your home machine
    - josephcsible 4y ago
      If you have a suitable machine to do so, then couldn't you just tunnel your DNS traffic through it and out its default resolver, without having to run your own?
      - justsomehnguy 4y ago
        The question would be why bother with 3rd-party resolvers in that case? NB I have a slightly different setup - I run Unbound locally and route DNS requests through the 'suitable machine' on VPS over VPN established by my LAN router. I considered moving the resolver there but didn't yet found the setup what would be usable for me when I would be out of my LAN. Opening my resolver to the whole world is the way to be a part of the bot relays for DDoS attacks, so this is out of question.
krolden 4y ago
You were probably using their filtered resolver. Try dnscrypt-ip4-nofilter-pri https://quad9.net/dnscrypt/quad9-resolvers-dnscrypt.md https://quad9.net/dnscrypt/quad9-resolvers-dnscrypt.md
yencabulator 4y ago
Huh? $ dog thepiratebay.org. a @9.9.9.9 A thepiratebay.org. 5m00s 162.159.137.6 A thepiratebay.org. 5m00s 162.159.136.6 $ dog eztv.re. a @9.9.9.9 A eztv.re. 5m00s 104.31.16.120 A eztv.re. 5m00s 104.31.16.9 $ dog yts.mx. a @9.9.9.9 A yts.mx. 5m00s 104.31.16.9 A yts.mx. 5m00s 104.31.16.120

waboremo 4y ago

Searched a bunch of (popular) torrent sites and some of their proxies on https://www.quad9.net/result https://www.quad9.net/result and they are all unblocked. Which ones got blocked for you? You could also use Quad9's unsecured DNS to check if it was blocked by their list or if something else was going on.

justsomehnguy 4y ago

You can run your own resolver

flangola7 4y ago
What if root servers just take it down? Retract the domain registration, etc.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  Then noone could resolve it, including Quad9, CloudFlare, Cisco, Google etc.
- mynameisvlad 4y ago
  Your resolver can resolve any domain to any IP. As long as it’s a static IP and the server is still there, you’d still have access as long as you had that mapping.
- cesarb 4y ago
  > What if root servers just take it down? Root servers only control the mapping up to the TLD. That is, they for instance know the nameservers for ".br", but they know nothing about the nameservers for ".com.br", or about the domains below that. If your domain is "example.com.br", the nameservers which could "just take it down" are the nameservers for ".com.br", not the root nameservers. In the same way, the root servers are completely unrelated to domain registrations (other than pointing to nameservers which know about them).
josephcsible 4y ago
Doing so is usually pointless. Either your ISP isn't evil, in which case there's no need since you could just use theirs, or your ISP is evil, in which case they'll hijack all of the recursive queries that your own resolver would need to make.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago
  Note: you can run your own resolver not at your home machine
  - josephcsible 4y ago
    If you have a suitable machine to do so, then couldn't you just tunnel your DNS traffic through it and out its default resolver, without having to run your own?
    - justsomehnguy 4y ago
      The question would be why bother with 3rd-party resolvers in that case? NB I have a slightly different setup - I run Unbound locally and route DNS requests through the 'suitable machine' on VPS over VPN established by my LAN router. I considered moving the resolver there but didn't yet found the setup what would be usable for me when I would be out of my LAN. Opening my resolver to the whole world is the way to be a part of the bot relays for DDoS attacks, so this is out of question.

krolden 4y ago

You were probably using their filtered resolver. Try dnscrypt-ip4-nofilter-pri https://quad9.net/dnscrypt/quad9-resolvers-dnscrypt.md https://quad9.net/dnscrypt/quad9-resolvers-dnscrypt.md

yencabulator 4y ago

Huh? $ dog thepiratebay.org. a @9.9.9.9 A thepiratebay.org. 5m00s 162.159.137.6 A thepiratebay.org. 5m00s 162.159.136.6 $ dog eztv.re. a @9.9.9.9 A eztv.re. 5m00s 104.31.16.120 A eztv.re. 5m00s 104.31.16.9 $ dog yts.mx. a @9.9.9.9 A yts.mx. 5m00s 104.31.16.9 A yts.mx. 5m00s 104.31.16.120