as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.
this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2025
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Time for old school IP indexes.
Yup back to tracking a HOST file. Maybe I should write a tool that is decentralized writing a host file across the internet and you can use it whenever you want. This will also allow you to get domains that is currently not possible ^^
luckily, it's easy to change your dns server.
it's easy to change your dns server. yet*
Until they block that as well by controlling the root DNS servers.
Maybe recursive DNS will become much more popular. I'd love to see faith and compliance with ICANN and IANA erode at least a little bit. Centralized DNS is the Achilles heel of the open internet, and yes that extends to activitypub based platforms which federate via domains.
I'm indeed running my own recursive DNS server called Unbound. Everybody should run one at home.
Are you pulling directly from root servers? I run pihole but it's upstream is Cloudflare.
Yes, Unbound by default will query DNS root servers (root hints) without any middle man, thus greatly improve security. Unless you override forward-zone: or one or all stub-zone.
But only if it needs to, since Unbound has also a cache to store the DNS queries results.
See my config: https://gitlab.melroy.org/-/snippets/620
And little less easy to run own.