Google Receives Piracy Shield Orders to Block Pirate Sites in Public DNS * TorrentFreak
Google Receives Piracy Shield Orders to Block Pirate Sites in Public DNS * TorrentFreak
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Google Receives Piracy Shield Orders to Block Pirate Sites in Public DNS * TorrentFreak
Can someone considerably smarter than me, with time to spare, please just find a way to federate/decentralize DNS.
I can fathom that it is complicated, maybe even impossible in the current setup, but the internet we all grew to love dies a little bit more each time the mouth breathers try to restrict it on behalf of capitalism.
Maybe remembering ip addresses can fill the void of not having to remember phone numbers anymore?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System
Already is. Run your own.
https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/
I mean, as far as I know, DNS is decentralized. Anyone can host their own DNS server, or change which server their network/device uses. Google's is just very commonly used because 8.8.8.8 is easy to remember, but there are thousands of others run by entities big and small, and there's nothing stopping you from running your own (assuming you manage to get a hold of a static IPv4)
This is the correct answer. The only thing I would add is some devices don't allow changing the DNS IPs and are hard coded to 8.8.8.8 so Google blocking sites via DNS is still an issue. Of course you could intercept these requests, but with DNS over HTTPS becoming more popular, i would imagine that device manufactures will also start to do certificate pinning as well to prevent people from using their own DNS server.
I've been using Google's Public DNS for quite a while, should I switch to Cloudflare or NextDNS after reading OP's post ?
Do I need a static ip if I plan to only use it locally from my home network?
Can also set up ipv6 dns, those always static.
You are 100% correct. The issue isn’t the infrastructure per se, but the usage of it.
By decentralizing, I guess I mean finding a way to remove the ability for a mega company like Google from being able to dominate the playfield.
The percentage of internet users that can or will bother to run their own DNS is way too low.
How easily DNS can be manipulated by any network for the average end user is the blessing and the curse it seems.
This reminded me of namecoin which is a block chain based DNS.
Thanks for this! I’ll read up on it.
The name unfortunately put me off from looking into it before. Basically anything with ‘coin’ in it just makes my brain go to crypto scam automatically these days I think.
Even remembering IP addresses isn't a great because services can change IP addresses at any point.
As others have mentioned DNS, by its design, is decentralized...to a point. If you run your own DNS, you can't be an authority to .com addresses for example. Even that sentence has caveats.
Generally speaking you can run your own DNS that uses root DNS servers. MPAA and others have attempted to get those servers to stop pirate domains from being resolvable but they've essentially said "fuck off".
IMO, that's going to be the last battleground, at which point pirating will have no choice but to move to tor and/or to I2P.