that still wouldn't work as they simple capture all traffic on port 53 and redirect transparently to their own servers
On 23 May 2012 10:37, Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> wrote: > I personally stopped using GO a long time ago, and can proudly say that my > house has NONE of GO's services... not even a fixed line. > > Melita does not have this problem. Yet. Remember that by blocking trackers > and bittorrent, they're not just bowing the IP holders, but more > importantly for them they're hugely reducing the amount of bandwidth they > need. > > I can't test this at home, because I'm on Melita, however... > > Does GO have domains to point to its DNS servers, or just as IP? In the > latter case you could modify your local hosts file to make the domain > resolve to Google's DNS servers, or OpenDNS or something similar. > > K > > > On 23 May 2012, at 09:57, Anton Xuereb wrote: > > glad to have helped. P.S. Their 25mbit fibre with 1.5mbit upload is > deeeeeeeeliciousss > > On 23 May 2012 09:55, Ramon Casha <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I suspect that the nefarious role was the intended effect. Thanks for >> telling me about Melita. I'll probably switch everything over pretty soon. >> >> >> Ramon Casha >> >> >> On 23 May 2012 09:14, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I'v been aware of this setup for quite some time now. Afaik the initial >>> reason for this setup was that since they bought so many competitors, they >>> resolved to this tactic instead of having to contact all their customers to >>> change DNS settings. Ofcourse, this setup seems to now have taken a more >>> nefarious role. >>> >>> >>> >>> On 23 May 2012 09:10, Paul Morley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Yes that has happen to me a few times, >>>> I think their spam filtering zaps the message but unfortunately it does >>>> not tell the sender the email has been block and and not sent also it >>>> doesn't tell the receiver that the message was blocked, so he will never >>>> know a message was sent in the first place...!! >>>> >>>> On 05/23/2012 06:27 AM, Daniel wrote: >>>> >>>> From my experience with Melita....I send some particular emails with >>>> attachments and they finish somewhere in cyperspace....there is NO >>>> acknowledgement that the email has been withheld (for any medieval reason >>>> maybe!!) for the sender and neither to the receiver!!! >>>> >>>> On 23/05/12 06:03, Ramon Casha wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120521/letters/Internet-privacy.420660 >>>> >>>> >>>> Ramon Casha >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MLUG-list mailing >>>> [email protected]http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MLUG-list mailing >>>> [email protected]http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> MLUG-list mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> MLUG-list mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MLUG-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list >> >> > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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