Comment by ⛄️ gim

Re: "DNS as a Vulnerability"

In: s/Gemini

@stack I'm pretty certain it's even more than 90%, but - at least here - default DNS server usually point to ISP dns servers, not google or cloudflare.

(what I'm trying to say is that I _believe_ it is not as centralized, as some other services - say cloud services in general)

⛄️ gim

Aug 11 · 2 months ago

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💀 requiem · Aug 12 at 20:56:

Use Quadnine (9.9.9.9 / 149.112.112.112) ; or if you #RunBSD, you can just use unwind and unbound and be your own resolver.

If you are talking about Nameservers, desec.io.

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🌒 s/Gemini

DNS as a Vulnerability — In a recent thread I posted that Google can't stop us because we're distributed and do not have a central entity. However we do use DNS, and I wouldn't be surprised if most users either use Google DNS or another DNS provider that shares information with Google and is an affiliate of some sort... Should the powers that be decide to stop us all they have to do is shut down DNS to the Gemini domain. We are still centralized and all our links rely on DNS. It maybe wise to...

💬 stack · 14 comments · Aug 10 · 2 months ago


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