Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco must poison their DNS resolvers to prevent access to around 117 domains used by pirate sport streaming sites.

Run your own unbound or bind resolvers!

    • Venia Silente@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Never question the bravery of the French. They discovered snails are edible.

      As for their intelligence on the other hand…

  • exu@feditown.comEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Apparently Cisco operates a popular DNS resolver? Never heard of that before.

    And definitely don’t learn how to use a VPN. Or set up Unbound or Bind or PowerDNS Recursive…

    • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
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      10 months ago

      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