Best thing I can suggest is running the DNS traffic over a VPN and hosting a local DNS caching server on your network
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Anton Xuereb <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > >
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