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rany_ | 6 months ago

How does this "DNS trick" work? That to me is a much more interesting detail.

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It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking, or routes the traffic through TCP proxies so your traffic appears to come from a different country without these laws.

This will increase the latency of all traffic to that site though.

lelanthran|6 months ago

> It likely overrides DNS resolution to CDN/POPs in countries which don't require age checking,

I don't understand what this means:

1. It resolves DNS requests - got it.

2. The resolution sends back an address to a CDN - okay, not sure that I got it

3. The resolved address is in a country which doesn't require age checking - Totally don't get it: how will this help?

selcuka|6 months ago

A DNS provider can not route your traffic through TCP proxies, so it must be the former.

rany_|6 months ago

I tried out NextDNS and this feature doesn't seem to work anyway. Enabling "Bypass Age Verification" has no effect. I tested it out on PornHub and XVideos.

I also can't find anything different in the returned A/AAAA records compared to my standard resolver.