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Re:CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah le... by zapdrive on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:03PM (#18682941)
So what happens if a CenturyLink customer is not using their DNS, and using for example Google's DNS. They will suddenly have their internet disabled and will never see this page, where they have to click "OK" to reconnect their internet.
Re:CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah le... by jeroenhd on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:10PM (#18683000)
They will probably forward all DNS traffic to their own resolvers by just changing the destination IP of any UDP traffic to port 53.

This won't work with DNSSEC or encrypted DNS though.

Re:CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah le... by tptacek on Saturday December 15, 2018 @12:51PM (#18689424)
It'll work just fine with DNSSEC for the overwhelming majority of sites on the Internet, since virtually none of them are signed and DNSSEC doesn't actually encrypt traffic.

Encrypted DNS, though, like DoH or DNS-over-TLS or DNSCrypt, stops this cold.

Re:CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah le... by aflag on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:40PM (#18683897)
The tldr section of the article says that's not the case.
Re:CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah le... by snapwich on Friday December 14, 2018 @02:46PM (#18683960)
It wasn't the case for me, however I'm not exactly sure how they've implemented this DNS hijacking and if I was just an exception or the rule. Other people using custom DNS seemed to have a similar experience from what I read on reddit though.
Re:CenturyLink is blocking customer internet, saying Utah le... by sleepydog on Friday December 14, 2018 @01:08PM (#18682990)
You could argue that they are failing to notify customers who do not use their DNS, and aren't complying with the law. Email or a notice on their invoice would not have had that problem.