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DNS hijacking (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 3laws@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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EDIT: So because of my $0 budget and the fact that my uptime is around 50% (PC, no additional servers) I ended up using NextDNS. For the time being it works (according to dnsleaktest), an added benefit was improved ad-blocking (100% in this tool). I now have plans for a proper router in the future with a Pi-hole. Thanks so much for all the info & suggestions, definitely learnt a lot.

So it turns out I got myself into an ISP that was shittier than expected (I already knew it was kinda shitty), they DNS hijack for whatever reason and I can't manually set my own DNS on my router or even my devices.

Cyber security has never been my forte but I'm always trying to keep learning as I go. I've read that common solutions involve using a different port (54) or getting a different modem/router or just adding a router.

Are they all true? Whats the cheapest, easiest way of dealing with all of this?

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[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
DNS Domain Name Service/System
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS HTTP over SSL
IP Internet Protocol
PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPN Virtual Private Network

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[-] timi@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You missed two that I’d like to know about. DoH and DoT. Thanks, robot!

[-] SlothCroissant@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

DNS over HTTPS, DNS over TLS

[-] 3laws@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I had to figure it out myself haha.

[-] 3laws@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Good bot.

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