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Re: dns interceptors

  • From: Larry Sheldon
  • Date: Sun Feb 14 12:56:20 2010

On 2/14/2010 11:42 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Jason Frisvold wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2010, at 4:58 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>> i am often on funky networks in funky places.  e.g. the wireless in
>>> changi really sucked friday night.  if i ssh tunneled, it would multiply
>>> the suckiness as tcp would have puked at the loss rate.
>>
>> You can always run your own local resolver...  Or is there a reason that's unacceptable?
> 
> How does that help?  It still sends port 53 requests to the authorities, which will be intercepted.

I don't have access to a trustable network to tunnel to.  (Or at least I
don't know how to.)

I wish some enteprenure would start a subscription service to provide
honest DNS (and maybe authenticatrd outbound email) that I could point
to regardless of to where I may have wandered.

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take everything you have."

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