In an ongoing escalation of its fight against online sports piracy, media giant Canal+ secured court orders compelling DNS providers Quad9 and Vercara to block access to pirate streaming sites in France. Quad9 says that it’s determined to appeal what it sees as an absurd application of copyright law. For now, however, it will block the targeted domain names globally.
Canal has always been a terrible company from as far as I can remember. They had the best programs sure but their ultra-capitalist methods, the fact they were always involved with whatever scandal/corporate abuse and at the time the only channel you had to pay for always turned me off. Especially since France had great public TV and other private channels available for free.
Ah, that’s annoying. I’ve had to switch from Real Debrid (turns out RD was run by cunts anyways, so good riddance) and now Quad9. Sucks, they had better response times than most DNS I tested.
Block the French government. Done.
Does this explain why torrentgalaxy has been unreachable for a couple days on my end? Hope they ain’t on the domain list and that I don’t have to change DNS (due to laziness over everything else).
Can’t you use adguard dns?
Technitium is really nice too
I already can’t do half the things I’m trying to do on my network, now I gotta figure out DNS?!?
Nah it’s not really hard. Look at unbound. If you have pihole already, adding unbound is really very easy.
Yesterday.
Already am.
Can you elaborate on this a bit? I’m currently running pihole. But mostly because I had a spare raspberry pi.
But it uses quad 9 for dns records. How do you establish your own dns that does not rely on other providers?
On mobile atm. Look for pi-hole + unbound. Uses root DNS. Might take a tiny bit longer to resolve at first, but as long as root DNS is uncensored it should be the way to go.
Thanks! I’ll check it out this weekend.
Well, there’s the ALFIS project
Time to change to ipv6 ip that not change? Then dns not necessary, not even domain registrar.
What even different to go after domain registrar? If domain unregistered, same result as block on all dns globally?
Huh? Dns and ipv4 are two different things. You’re probably thinking of NAT.
There so many ipv6 adress no need to change. Dns for get ip from hostname and update ip if change.
Ipv4 not enough adress, so always change, not need with ipv6.
DNS exists so you don’t have to learn a bunch of IP addresses. Changing to ipv6 doesn’t fix that.
BS solution that doesnt apply to the problem.
Problem: The DNS doesnt resolve the domain anymore so https://www.foo.bar/ resolves to 0.0.0.0
Solution: Change domain or directly connect via the IP.
Problem 2: What’s the IP if you can’t resolve it first. There aint telephone books anymore.Solution: while not dns block, write down domain + ip in /etc/hosts.
There aint telephone books anymore.
What is megathread then? Put ip there, then do /etc/hosts solution.
I am thinking more about a general “phone book” and not a specialized section in the yellow pages.
Amd connecting to google via IP is not possible. Same for other companies and organizations that utilize obfuscation of the actual servers like reverse proxies and load-balancers.
