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"My DNS ip address software stopped working."

I want to make sure this doesn't happen to me. You obviously are way more knowledgeable than me. I guess if I check the DNS settings in my router it would be obvious? I don't think I even have DNS software. The router is the only place I know of that stores DNS locally.

Google is way more evil than I ever imagined and I have a strong imagination. That seems criminal to me and it has Google's name right on it. Talk about in your face!

On your router AND your individual PC. My router had the correct DNS, it was my PC nic (network interface card) that had its DNS settings manually overridden and forced to the google numbers. So even though my router could pass down the correct DNS addresses, my PC was overridden.

Here is a procedure to check your settings.

https://www.howtogeek.com/164981/how-to-switch-to-opendns-or-google-dns-to-speed-up-web-browsing/

Also, after further review on line, it appears that Google introduced their DNS very recently. The date on this article was Oct 2018.

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

Google tout it as being faster. But it gives them too much power and yes, if they so chose, they could block Free Republic. Maybe not now but definitely in the future.

Too much power in the hands of an entity that doesn't think the way that I do.

Worst of all, I didn't know that it had changed. BTW, I use OpenDNS.