Agreed.
Though its not so easy to setup a VPN, as well as rules to route DNS traffic to it. At least for the average user. K On 23 May 2012, at 10:49, Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti wrote: > 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 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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