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1 posted on 09/21/2023 8:53:30 PM PDT by lightman

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2 posted on 09/21/2023 8:54:05 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)

Set your own dns server address to: 8.8.8.8. Googles dns servers. Surprisingly, they don’t black anyone.

3 posted on 09/21/2023 9:00:02 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Repeal the Patriot Act; Abolish the DHS; reform FBI top to bottom!)

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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?

4 posted on 09/21/2023 9:13:50 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)

Dial tone?
You luddite...

5 posted on 09/21/2023 9:19:06 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)

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.

8 posted on 09/21/2023 9:30:57 PM PDT by JustaTech (My mind is the weapon. Everything else is tools.)

11 posted on 09/21/2023 10:09:50 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")

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).

12 posted on 09/22/2023 2:19:58 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)

https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

Be a virtual jet setter. I’m in Toronto right now.

14 posted on 09/22/2023 5:49:04 AM PDT by Pollard (The US government has US citizens as political prisoners!)

To: lightman; Alas Babylon!

I'm going to write this up since a lot of people don't know this.

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.

Run 'Unbound' on your computer, then point your DNS to 'localhost'. Unbound is a very high grade DNS server software and can be found at this address (https://nlnetlabs.nl/projects/unbound/about/).
Run a custom router or router firmware that includes ir can include something like Unbound (PFSense, OPNsense, OpenWRT).
Keep your router, but add an additional appliance like a 'PiHole' to your network to act as your DNS (and also can kill a lot of ad stuff as well). PiHole is a piece of software that is traditionally run on a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. This is a pretty straightforward issue if you are a little computer-savvy, but the Raspberry Pis themselves are in an availability crunch right now. Good luck!

19 posted on 09/22/2023 8:34:44 AM PDT by billakay

If everything “went down” it is due to a connection being broken, not a hack. If your sites are being blocked, that is probably on your end…not comcast.

21 posted on 09/22/2023 9:00:34 AM PDT by Vermont Lt

Are they back now? Hope so.

26 posted on 09/22/2023 4:55:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Either ‘the Deep State destroys America, or we destroy the Deep State.’ --Donald Trump)

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