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How exactly does this work? Is the NFL's only protection against Americans viewing for free the fact that American DNS servers give access to a different server
by bonyt 13y ago
How exactly does this work? Is the NFL's only protection against Americans viewing for free the fact that American DNS servers give access to a different server, instead of actually checking the IP?
If this were the case, why pay for a DNS service when you can just find the relevant entries and put them in your /etc/hosts file?
- js2 13y agoI believe they redirect certain hostnames through their servers and proxy those connections. It's also possible that the NFL, etc, use dynamically generated CNAMEs.
- corresation 13y agoYou are exactly right. The DNS part of this is only that by pointing your DNS entries at them, they can override specific domains to go through proxies. In this case using proxies in the NL, which is apparently the single and only European country that gets this free viewing right (and likely will find that right quickly disappear as a bunch of Americans start proxying through it). For articles like this the author really needs to save the justification because it is a) ridiculous to the people who see through it, b) unnecessary to the people who already buy in.