Actually if you have DD-WRT its a piece of cake. I suggest it to any user who has a home router which is dd-wrt compatible. The benefits go well beyond the scope of this thread, but don't be intimidated. Most VPN providers support dd-wrt.
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Keith Vassallo <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >>>>>> [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 >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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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