▲ 178 ▼ Google, Cloudflare & Cisco Will Poison DNS to Stop Piracy Block Circumvention * TorrentFreak (torrentfreak.com) submitted 2 years ago by reddthat@reddthat.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 comments fedilink hide all child comments Run your own unbound or bind resolvers!
[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 14 points 2 years ago (1 child) ELI5…? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Dave@lemmy.nz 62 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago Thank you! That makes much more sense. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 62 points 2 years ago (1 child) 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 permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago Thank you! That makes much more sense. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Doombot1@lemmy.one 8 points 2 years ago Thank you! That makes much more sense. permalink fedilink source parent