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Super shady stuff. I never rely on any ISP provided DNS servers Doesn't that mean that you don't benefit from nearby CDNs? Perhaps worth the tradeoff anyway.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are anycast.
As a ISP when we were considering using Aspira they claimed that no referral tokens would be replaced and that the only behavior was injecting a popup coupon window. I decided not to proceed with it because it seemed like a support nightmare and tampering with non-malicious subscriber traffic crosses a line. Their marketing affiliates (such as Cash4Trafik) are always reaching out to CEO types at small ISPs and the mo…
Super shady stuff. I never rely on any ISP provided DNS servers. I'm glad you talked to the the etailers to let them know what was going on. These business practices do introduce latency, regardless of what he told you. Not to mention, they are highly unethical and dishonest.
Super shady stuff. I never rely on any ISP provided DNS servers Doesn't that mean that you don't benefit from nearby CDNs? Perhaps worth the tradeoff anyway.
As a ISP when we were considering using Aspira they claimed that no referral tokens would be replaced and that the only behavior was injecting a popup coupon window. I decided not to proceed with it because it seemed like a support nightmare and tampering with non-malicious subscriber traffic crosses a line. Their marketing affiliates (such as Cash4Trafik) are always reaching out to CEO types at small ISPs and the mo…
Knowing that you consider tampering with nonmalicious subscriber traffic to be crossing a line is something I would pay a premium for.
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Super shady stuff. I never rely on any ISP provided DNS servers Doesn't that mean that you don't benefit from nearby CDNs? Perhaps worth the tradeoff anyway.
8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are anycast.
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8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are anycast.
And GOOG-owned. Spam from a small-scale ISP, or tracking by a big ad firm? You lose either way.
"We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information about usage as we could, while still being able to detect and fix problems. Google Public DNS does not permanently store personally identifiable information."
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8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 are anycast.
You don't trust your ISP, so you go for the one company whose entire profit model is build around ads and profiling their users, and who is known to cooperate (willingly and/or unwillingly) with the NSA in their logging programs? I'm not sure that's the right response...
Super shady stuff. I never rely on any ISP provided DNS servers. I'm glad you talked to the the etailers to let them know what was going on. These business practices do introduce latency, regardless of what he told you. Not to mention, they are highly unethical and dishonest.
A really shady ISP could intercept and redirect any outgoing port 53 traffic to their servers.
It did take a while to figure out what was causing the intermittent DNS failures. "My ISP is hijacking all port 53 traffic" was fairly low on my list of possibilities, I must admit.
Fortunately it's not that hard to run a local resolver that forwards queries to an external resolver on a vps on an alternate port.
I'd switch ISPs, but I live in a remote area and my only other choices would be satellite or cellular, so I'm stuck with them.
I'd like to try out this curl command. I'm not using macports, though. Like many people, I've switched to brew since some time. Is there a quick way to see if my curl install is compiled with 'ares' whatever that is?
But seriously I don't know how brew works, though looks like the code supports the option: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/For...