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Re: Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

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Post by mike_d » 

  103.196.38.3
  103.196.38.8
Globally anycasted plain vanilla name resolution. I don't publicize it because I don't have anything to gain from more users, but you are free to use them.

Re: Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

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Post by qeternity »

contingencies wrote: post #57
kfrzcode wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As are many Western inventions

DNS[0] is only a decentralized hierarchy with caching, a class of system which pre-dates the digital era as the de-facto means of political and military organization in any human society larger than a village or town. DNS as a directory system for IP is could itself be viewed as a direct philosophical descendant of military insignia (perhaps via the then-popular branch-tangent of the telephone book, itself ex-telegra…

> I don't think arguing this is a "western" invention is very convincing or useful. Any ancient army or polity of any size would have had an equivalent, which would then include ancient Egypt, China[2], India, Mesopotamia[3], Mesoamerica, etc.

And yet, none of these other regions and cultures actually did invent it, and thus it remains a Western invention.

Re: Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

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Post by qeternity »

kortilla wrote: post #71
contingencies wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

DNS[0] is only a decentralized hierarchy with caching, a class of system which pre-dates the digital era as the de-facto means of political and military organization in any human society larger than a village or town. DNS as a directory system for IP is could itself be viewed as a direct philosophical descendant of military insignia (perhaps via the then-popular branch-tangent of the telephone book, itself ex-telegra…

By that same token the internet was invented by the first person to hand gesture to another one. You can’t dilute DNS down to a directory because there were/and are already other directory protocols.

Walking gets you from A to B just like a car, so actually the first bipeds really invented the automobile.

Re: Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

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Post by axiosgunnar »

Note that even Switzerland could not stay neutral this time and enacted severe sanctions against Russia.

Maybe staying neutral has the higher cost to a free society (and thus „information wanting to be free“) in the long term?

Re: Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

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Post by stingraycharles »

nfriedly wrote: post #9

I know this isn't quite what your asking for, but one idea is to set up a Pi-hole + unbound: https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/ Unbound is basically your own private DNS resolver and then Pi-hole lets you filter out whatever "junk" you don't want.

Or you can just run unbound directly. I’ve been doing that for years, and let it directly resolve with the root DNS servers. Can’t get more neutral than that, I’d argue.

Re: Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?

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Post by hansel_der »

rsync wrote: post #21
stranded22 wrote: post #18

Personally, I use nextdns on a paid plan (£17/year). Full control, can change to no logs, or logs stored in Switzerland. They have a free plan too

I do this. I have my own resolver on my own server running unbound and it gets service from my paid nextdns account. Sort of like having a pihole but it is available from anywhere and I don’t have to run a rpi…

so your unbound instance is doing caching, mixing and stipping edns before forwarding the queries to nextdns resolvers?
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