Why does every single record need to be refreshed less than an HOUR after they’re initially sent, or cleared out in a single MINUTE? Some DNS records I see from high-rolling tech companies have abysmally low TTL on them, namely Amazon and Microsoft, with one of the lowest TTL’s I’ve ever seen at 1 second … Read More “What’s the deal with sub-minute and sub-hour TTL’s?” »

Hello everyone, I’ve been trying incessantly to force safe search on DDG via the hosts file. Through Leow Kah Man’s tutorial I managed to do it on Google and Bing, however with DDG it has been of no avail. He uses some “CNAME” apparently as well as “dnsmasq” but I can’t for the love of … Read More “How can a layman force Safe Search on DuckDuckGo via hosts file?” »

Is this correct or not, and why? Someone said you can paste a code into Android’s dns to block all ads. But then someone else said this is false, and that UBO can block more ads. There’s a ton of bad info on this site, so can someone that’s knowledgeable and informed reading this clear … Read More “DNS can’t block all ads” »

Is it best practice / recommended to use products like dnsfilter, opendns, umbrella in a corporate environment? submitted by /u/bagpussnz9 [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

I had open DNS set on my router as my default DNS provider, yesterday I couldn’t access the internet all of the sudden, I tried everything, till I turn on the system that automatically uses their DNS then magically my internet is up and running again Then I tried to set it up using both … Read More “My ISP seems to have blocked my ability to change DNS completely” »

So therefore a lot of sites are blocked in Iran I used DNS services to access them without a VPN like (YouTube and Spotify) but after being away from the Internet for 2 weeks and the DNS doesn’t work for most of the sites like it did before and I can only access them with … Read More “dns servers not working in Iran” »

Hi there! I was wondering if there were any resources for creating root servers. There is no shortage of tutorials for creating authoritative and recursive DNS servers and that’s not helpful. I have a bunch of Handshake TLDs I’d like to create root servers for. submitted by /u/NetOperatorWibby [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

My VPN has its own DNS leak protection. My question is, if I turn on cloudflares 1.1.1.1 DNS server in the browser, will it add another layer of protection over the VPN or will it just replace my VPN’s DNS and interfere with it somehow? submitted by /u/SpaceCobbler [link] [comments] Powered by WPeMatico

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