Run your own unbound
or bind
resolvers!
A French court has ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their DNS resolvers…
Never question the bravery of the French. They discovered snails are edible.
As for their intelligence on the other hand…
https://unbound.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/use-cases/home-resolver.html
https://www.perfacilis.com/blog/systeembeheer/linux/setup-a-public-dns-server.html
Or even better yet, why not join OpenNIC and help a more democratic alternative to DNS root.
Since OpenNIC resolvers are user-run, doesn’t that mean a bad actor could theoretically pop up at any time and log any request that goes through them?
Opennic should be the default DNS of everybody!
ELI5 please. What are the benefits over unbound?
I don’t know about unbound so I can’t really compare… OpenNic is not run by for-profit corporations, which I think is a good thing.
unbound is a software that you can run anywhere to have a caching dns. opennic is a project of dns servers you can connect to to resolve dns records (think in google dns servers but run by the community). two different problem spaces. you can even use both at the same time
ELI5…?
DNS is when your browser asks where to find a website. You enter Lemmy.One in your browser, and your browser asks the DNS resolver the address of the computer the website is hosted on.
Most people will use their internet company’s DNS, and it sounds like France ordered these companies to block some illegal streaming sites by having the DNS server point to a page saying it’s blocked instead of to the website server.
More technical users changed their settings to get DNS from google, Cloudflare, etc instead of the internet company, so now France is going to make those companies block the sites too.
ELI5: France is lying to your computer when it asks where to find the websites
Thank you! That makes much more sense.
NextDNS flying under the radar like always.
Is it possible to get unbound to talk to the root servers via TLS/HTTPS by now?
I’m currently using Quad9 because they support DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS.
Yes its possible 👍
Use:
forward-zone: forward-addr: 9.9.9.9@853#dns.quad9.net
That is what I’m doing currently but now unbound doesn’t talk to the root servers anymore, it sends all queries to Quad9.
Both scenarios are not ideal because you always end up with one entity knowing all your queries.
Perhaps you could configure more than unbound service behind a loadbalancer. Each unbound instance is configured to use different upstream dns servers.
Double check if unbound doesn’t allow you to randomly hop between dns upstreams first, but the above solution should work if that’s unavailable atm.
Not sure you would even need encryption. Surely It can’t be illegal to ask the root servers (and all the other DNS servers involved, because the root servers only have IPs for TLD DNS servers) for IPs
Not illegal but it leaves all your DNS lookups in plain text with your ISP, which just doesn’t sit right with me.
Not that the ISP in my country would care.
Also introduces the possibility of DNS poisoning
I just want to point out the Technitium project as an alternative to unbound and bind resolver as well.
Regardless, it’s really easy to setup your own DNS resolver that resolves to DNS roots.
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I’m glad it’s only the football streaming sites, but I don’t much like that companies get this kind of legal power.