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[Waqas Ashraf <waqas281 AT gmail.com>]

Could you give me list or tell me how I can determine which t1 uses 5353 port 
? And I was wondering if VPN might work as well Simon suggested using tor but 
with tor I get hit on speed and ping hit 

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On Jan 8, 2013, at 10:56 AM, Jeff Taylor <shdwdrgn AT sourpuss.net> wrote:

> If you want to be a little less obvious about your DNS traffic, there
> are a few T1 and T2 servers which also respond on port 5353 in order to
> assist those who have ISP's which intercept their dns queries.  This is
> still plaintext packets, so deep packet inspection would still detect
> your queries, but so far we have not seen that be a problem for anyone.
> 
> 
> On 01/08/2013 04:21 AM, Simon 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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