On 22/12/2018 00:10, Alan Milewczyk wrote:
On 21/12/2018 22:08, Jeremy Nicoll - ml gip wrote:
On 2018-12-21 14:27, Paul Thornett wrote:
VPNs are often very slow. Much faster, and a solution that works well
for me, is something called Smart DNS, which is essentially a
different set of DNS addresses.
Do you mean you're using different (from what?) DNS servers?
How does that help? You still, ultimately, have to contact the CDNs
from where the content is served.
https://www.smartdnsproxy.com/news/smart-dns-proxy/complete-guide-on-what-is-a-smart-dns-proxy-server-and-how-does-it-work-9.aspx
OK, so the name is misleading - it's really a proxy, not an alternative
source of DNS. It is effective, but not in the way originally suggested
- it doesn't give a "different set of DNS addresses" in any meaningful
sense.
Proxies do still have some advantages over VPNs, for the reasons
explained on that page - they can be faster, as they only reroute the
traffic you need rerouting rather than all of it, and they don't have
the overhead of encryption. But, against that, they are insecure and
more easily blocked by the content providers.
Once upon a time, proxies were the usual means of defeating geo-IP
blocking. But VPNs are becoming the preferred solution, because they are
much more secure. And the speed advantage of proxies has generally
fallen away with better bandwidth and connectivity.
Mark
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