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On 30/03/13 06:34, Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Peter Humphrey |
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> <peter@××××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 28 March 2013 20:53:49 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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>>> In my case, my ISP's DNS servers are slow (several seconds to reply), |
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>>> fail randomly when they should resolve, return an IP (which goes to |
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>>> their ad-laden "helper" website if you are using a web browser) when |
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>>> they should instead return nxdomain, and they have openly admitted to |
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>>> selling customer DNS lookup history to marketers for targeted |
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>>> advertising. |
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>> That is just evil. Have you no alternative to this ISP? |
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> Not really. |
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> I have a 100 megabit connection through the cable company; my only |
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> wired alternative is DSL (1.5 mbit for almost half the price I'm |
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> paying for 100mbit). Cellular or satellite are not viable options for |
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> me because of comparatively poor value, latency and miniscule data |
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> usage caps. |
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Can you do a tunnel to a cheap vsp instance that can access an external |
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dns, and feed all your dns queries through it? Considering the problems |
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with your existing setup, that looks attractive and you can have sane |
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fallbacks if neccessary. |
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I tried this to avoid the "Australia Tax" when online shopping overseas |
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and the small additional latency didnt seem to be a problem. |
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