Guys one question, what act does specifically to improve pings? Here in my city Jaipur they use tata as their upstream, same as Excitel. I've heard someone say on this forum that they block certain packets for better pings, so how's that done? Also DNS hijacking means I can't set my custom DNS on the router level? Like even if I use my own secondary router? Please tell.
Thanks
after getting static , i think they are not doing any DNS Hijacking, because all the Prerequisite Tests for unbound are successful. I eneded up setting up pihole with unbound now
and i get following buffer bloat test with SQM of 700mbps download and 500 mbps upload limits
i was finally able to remote access Plex without Taiscale because of Static IP via UPnP on my OpenWRT Router
You can set it , however ISP can Still enforce their own DNS, technically what you said is True. for eg if some websites are blocked by ISP, They should be accessible by using another DNS servers, however they are still blocked despite using cloudflare 1.1.1.1 servers. This is what ha happened in my case. You can bypass this using DoH if your router supports it or you can use a local dns server such as AdGuard Home with upstream DNS Server set with DoH, and pointing your router to AGH
Your speculation about DNS hijacking is not correct.
There have been no instances till now where major Indian ISPs have altered DNS responses from public resolver by intercepting them.
Sites still being blocked on your end is because of SNI based blocking done by their middleboxes not because DNS being hijacked.
I have performed a DNS measurement of a govt blocked domain to 1.1.1.1 with all RIPE Atlas probes in India which also includes ACT and all of them have successfully returned correct DNS response without any hijacking.
You are probably right. I am not literate on this. I saw someone also saying the same about ACT on reddit and they also said the same. I only used that term because i am not sure what other word to use.
Correct term would be DNS filtering on their own resolvers.
Just like you filter ad serving domains on your pihole, ISPs filter blocked domains on their resolver.
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