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[Waqas Ashraf <waqas281 AT gmail.com>]

I see!. Now what about a VPN ? Would that work as well?. Also I have two more 
questions how do I make my server public and also I was reading something 
about DNA malware hole ? If I was interested in it how would I go about doing 
it?

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 5:21 AM, Simon <simon AT hacknix.net> wrote:

> On 01/08/13 11:17, Waqas Ashraf wrote:
>> Reason I had asked that if I can check to see if I'm only going through 
>> opennic root servers rather then ICANN is because I was thinking about all 
>> the filtering that happens on ISP side of anything you search where they 
>> might deem something not safe for you and decide for you you don't need to 
>> know. So I was wondering if I could entirely bypass their root zone 
>> complete and go through only OPennic. I don't if it make sense to anyone 
>> maybe I should think more on it and rewrite what I'm trying to say.
> 
> Now you're running your own server, you're not going through your ISPs
> nameservers but your DNS transactions are still traversing their network
> in the clear so it's theoretically possible that they could snoop on
> your DNS requests.
> 
> You are, however, going through the ICANN servers to resolve ICANN
> domains only. For Opennic domains (e.g. .geek, .free etc) you are using
> the Opennic servers.
> 
> If your DNS packets being in the clear is a problem for you then you
> need to consider using an encrypted connection over which to make your
> DNS requests or using something like TOR.
> 
> 
> HTH
> 
> Simon
> 
> 
> 
> 
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