In response to several court orders, Cloudflare geoblocked more than 400 sports streaming piracy domain names on its pass-through service in France last year. Notably. Cloudflare says that, despite requests, it has not blocked any websites through the 1.1.1.1 Public DNS Resolver. That last comment is relevant to the renewed site blocking push in the United States.

      • melroy
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        711 days ago

        Yup back to tracking a HOST file. Maybe I should write a tool that is decentralized writing a host file across the internet and you can use it whenever you want. This will also allow you to get domains that is currently not possible ^^

      • melroy
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        311 days ago

        it’s easy to change your dns server. yet*

        Until they block that as well by controlling the root DNS servers.

        • Draconic NEO
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          311 days ago

          Maybe recursive DNS will become much more popular. I’d love to see faith and compliance with ICANN and IANA erode at least a little bit. Centralized DNS is the Achilles heel of the open internet, and yes that extends to activitypub based platforms which federate via domains.

          • melroy
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            411 days ago

            I’m indeed running my own recursive DNS server called Unbound. Everybody should run one at home.

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                210 days ago

                Yes, Unbound by default will query DNS root servers (root hints) without any middle man, thus greatly improve security. Unless you override forward-zone: or one or all stub-zone.

                But only if it needs to, since Unbound has also a cache to store the DNS queries results.

                See my config: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/620