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Posted on 09/21/2023 8:53:30 PM PDT by lightman
Around 2150 hours Comcast went completely down in south central Pennsylvania. No cable, dial tone, or internet.
After restoration a number of conservative news sites have become dns blocked, including:
World Net Daily
Townhall.com
The Federatlist
The National Herald
Surprisingly, DU is also down. Maybe the hacker's attempt at being "fair and balanced"
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Set your own dns server address to: 8.8.8.8. Googles dns servers. Surprisingly, they don’t black anyone.
The Greek Orthodox Archidocese of America (goarch.org) is also completely down; inaccessible by Comcast or through cellular data.
What major superpower is engaged in a geopolitical power struggle and sometimes uses as its proxy the Russian Orthodox Church?
Dial tone?
You luddite...
VOIP...part of the package.
And a backup for the cellular.
Redundant systems are part of preparedness.
Hello, this is customer service...
Did you try turning it off and turning it back on?
I had to bypass Comcast DNS with a VPN to get to 4-chan and the Q archive pages.
No doubt using any VPN angers my DOD monitors but screw ‘em. It’s my home, my Internet account, my computer.
Of course the DOD could also say it’s my ass, come with us. I’m too old to care anymore.
| In the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled East Coast Comcast DNS blocks conservative web sites, lightman wrote: |
The Greek Orthodox Archidocese of America (goarch.org) is also completely down; inaccessible by Comcast or through cellular data. What major superpower is engaged in a geopolitical power struggle and sometimes uses as its proxy the Russian Orthodox Church? |
Ever since the CIA was exposed for creating a way to make it seem like Russia hacked what the CIA had actually hacked, I'm less likely to jump on the Russia Russia Russia train. There's a reason why the DNC targets Russia. I think in part it's to hide their ties to China China China.
Did that right away...usual diagnostic pattern.
Anyway, all access seems to be restored.
There was something going on bigger than Comcast when these sites were unable to be reached through other ISP paths.
Bkmrk
DNS is one of the easiest things to customize and reconfigure to bypass ne’er-do-well ISPs.
https://www.opennicproject.org/
Find local DNS servers and plug them into your computer or home network. Most of them don’t catalog queries, so you can browse much freer than Google (8.8.8.8) or Cloudflare (1.1.1.1).
I agree with your statement in post #9.
I think of them every time my computer or phone does an update.
Don’t mind them listening to my calls or monitoring me. Just wish they woul stop dropping calls and slowing signal.
Now I’m in Kansas
That’s kind of a leap. Someone living rent free up there in your brain?
“Hello, this is customer service...
Did you try turning it off and turning it back on?”
School of IT graduation test——”reboot”.
While the Google 8.8.8.8 servers are pretty good, you can run your own DNS fairly easily. What you are looking for is your own 'recursive DNS server', preferably one that caches. There are several ways to approach it.
Oh, the IP address for ‘localhost’ is always 127.0.0.1 (this always refers to the current computer).
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