On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 11:00 AM, Andrew Sullivan <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 08:34:33AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>> Seems that they are intercepting ALL external DNS and sending their
>> own responses when they see an NXDOMAIN.
>
> Yes, some networks do that.
>
> What makes you think that privacy will help?  Why isn't it more likely
> that Verizon will just intercept anything on port 53 and break it
> anyway?  Unless we tunnel everything on the Internet in a single port
> (443?) and thereby foil all analysis by operators, both legitimate and
> otherwise, I don't see that there's any way to defend against
> Verizon's activities.  It seems to me that there are possible
> downsides to that, too.

Lets face it, port 53 is hopelessly compromised.

I don't want to run everything over port 443 either. But I am happy
with a scheme where I use a randomly assigned UDP port with fallback
to port 443 if the network attempts to block.

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