>>14670

I'd never heard of 1.1.1.1 - interesting.

I was using OpenDNS for a bit but they tend to censor the hell out of a lot of the internet so I gave up on that and fell back to using Google (Censorship vs Privacy, what a decision to make).

Perhaps a better idea is to have OpenDNS as option 1 and Google as fallback so you can resolve what OpenDNS censors, but the govt will know. Sigh.

Back when I used to have this magical thing called "spare time" I used to run a djbdns dns cache on a linux vm and save myself all this misery.

>>14671

>I'd never heard of 1.1.1.1 - interesting.

They tried very hard to make it a cool trendy thing, but good luck explaining to anyone other than us nerds what it is and how to switch.

I'll do as you say and run someone else for a bit and see what happens.

>>14670
You could collect packet captures and narrow things down if so inclined. I've been using 1.1.1.1 (secondary 1.0.0.1) with a caching dnsmasq forwarder since it was announced and haven't had any issues.

If to be believed, 1.1.1.1 seems to have both a very reasonable privacy policy and the CDN to provide excellent performance as a public DNS. Why anyone would willingly use Google services in 2018 is truly beyond me.

>>14670
Thanks for the report - haven't seen anything like this myself, but please do report more if you see it. I'll try using the Cloudflare DNS and see if I can repeat..

I use 1.1.1.1 quite often and haven't had any problems that I can think of. You might just have a shite router m8lad.

>>14674

No worries, I'm curious myself. As I say I can't replicate it, and can't really think of any reason it would be exclusive to this site. Apart from that I refresh here more than anywhere else, I suppose. It hasn't happened since I've posted, so if it's MI5 again then please just try and be more careful, lads.

>>14675

>You might just have a shite router m8lad

I certainly do. If it was happening all over the place I'd not be as surprised.

Switched to 1.1.1.1 from TalkTalk's 79.79.79.79 thanks to this thread, cheers.

>>14677
>TalkTalk
The horror!

>>14678
Uh-huh. And this is a picture of you, about to tell me how great the ISP that no-one has ever heard of that you use is, and how compatible their turbo encabulation matrix is with your IRC client.

Could you do me a favour and fuck off instead?

>>14679
Everything okay lad?

>>14680
It's out of my system now.

>>14678

I think I've been with every ISP in the country at this point and they're all shite in their own special way.

>>14679
Talktalk is pretty much universally agreed to be the very worst provider in the country.
And that's before you even consider that some people in India once got full unrestricted access to their customer records and used it to set up an entire business scamming talktalk customers.

>>14683
Yeah, I regularly get phone calls from Indian people wanting to take control of my computer. It's something I'm willing to put up with for cheap broadband. Don't really have a choice, despite what free marketeers would have you believe.

>>14689

>Don't really have a choice, despite what free marketeers would have you believe.

U wot m8?

>>14690
He might be on a Market A exchange where it's them or BT. Even then, exchanges at the bottom of Market B are unlikely to see any more competition now as there's little incentive for exapnsion. Kitting out an exchange costs a six-figure sum, which is going to be difficult to recoup if you can't get significant share on that exchange.

>>14691

The area I'm in now only got ADSL2 this year. I made a huge mistake moving out of the house with fibre.

If you're not a raging torrent-hound, EE's 200 Gig a month for £60, 1 month's rolling contract, might have some charm if you have coverage?
Works for me, where the choice is that, metered satellite, or 150Kbps ADSL from BT through whoever.

>>14693 adding: other suppliers and data caps exist. EE allow sanely priced topups if you blow through your quota. The EE routers are tolerable Huawei boxes with wired ethernet that you can feed into a real router.

>>14694
I pay £54 to Plusnet for a ~70mb connection and it's unlimited, gives me Anytime calls and I live in a field. Fibre to Exchange is being rolled out all across the country, I can't imagine the far more densely populated English countryside being left behind with bundled exchanges controlled by BT if my feild in Scotland is unbundled and has upgraded equipmemt, nevermind an actual town or province with double the amount of residents as the glorified village with a Greggs I live in.

We don't even have a Train Station.

>>14695 If I go to BT's rollout checker, it says there's no plans in the forseeable future.
I'll keep on paying for wireless data for a while yet, I suspect.

>>14695
Give them a call to have your bill reduced. Mention that their new customer deals are far better. When they say "we like to attract customers with good prices but retain them by delivering good value" point out that Virgin do the same. I pay <£30/month (18 months) and that was through the sales department and not retentions. You have a higher call plan but that's worth £8/month tops. You can easily save £200 quid over the year for the price of a free phonecall.