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ISPs block port 53? Where, might I ask?

Good reason to use a VPN, I guess.



Vodafone New Zealand. They did not block port 53 per se, merely redirecting everything to their proxy.

https://dnsleaktest.com/what-is-transparent-dns-proxy.html


Jesus, that sucks. Do they also block VPNs, say on ports 80 and 443? Some VPNs use SSH and/or SSL (stunnel) for obfuscation. iVPN uses obfsproxy. A few use OpenVPN hacks, or proprietary obfuscation.


As far as I can tell, no. But their home broadband division is a spectacular mess of four quasi-autonomous networks acquired through mergers and buyouts, so your mileage may vary depending on which block you land upon.

After all, it is really a lazy way to save transit costs by making sure that domain names resolve to a CDN they have peered with, or in the worst case, to a transparent HTTP caching proxy they have set up.




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