17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Site Blocklist

Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by SoftTalker on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:35PM (#41330451)

Yes I'm pretty sure this is what they do. The DHCP from the router gives 75.75.75.75 and 75.75.76.76. I've tried overriding that with different resolvers in my /etc/resolv.conf and it doesn't work. And logging in to the modem/router config does not offer any option to change DNS settings.

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by chii on Friday August 23, 2024 @12:47PM (#41330561)

i wonder if this will circumvent that sort of blocking: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by SoftTalker on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:27PM (#41331634)

I just tried it. I enabled it at the "Max Protection" level, used the default provider setting (Cloudflare) and it works. So it seems the answer is yes. So that's a pretty simple workaround that covers most cases. I'm guessing that most of the DNS lookups that people would want to be private are happening via a web browser.

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Re:17-Year-Old Student Exposes Germany's 'Secret' Pirate Sit... by INGSOCIALITE on Saturday August 24, 2024 @10:01AM (#41338373)

edit the /etc/resolv.conf with your chosen nameservers then chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

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