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PoliticAverse

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2. The question is what is doing your DNS now?

Reply to Wounded Bear (Original post)

Fri Mar 26, 2021, 10:39 AM

Mar 2021

Your ISP?

If it is your ISP you are allowing them to easily control and spy on all your DNS queries. Is that desirable?

There are several public and free alternate DNS servers (here's a list: https://www.lifewire.com/free-and-public-dns-servers-2626062 ). Using 2 different ones gives you some redunanncy in your DNS queries. Also in some cases the public DNS servers can be faster than the DNS provided by your ISP.

As to the proxy - that allows you to pass (redirect) all your Internet traffic through another computer. Few people need to do that (primarly those people behind restrictive firewalls do).

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Amateur here. Need some suggestions on DNS settings... [View all] Wounded Bear Mar 2021 OP

You have to have a DNS setting Miguelito Loveless Mar 2021 #1

The question is what is doing your DNS now? PoliticAverse Mar 2021 #2