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Australia

  • aaNet DNS Servers
    Victoria
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 203.123.94.40
    South Austalia
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 203.123.69.15
    Western Australia
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 202.76.136.40
    Queensland
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 202.76.170.40
    New South Wales
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 203.123.69.15
    ​

​
New Zealand

  • Xtra DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 202.27.158.40
    Secondary DNS: 202.27.156.72
    ​

​
UK

  • BT Broadband DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 62.6.40.178
    Secondary DNS: 62.6.40.162
    Tertiary DNS: 194.72.9.38
    ​
  • Sky Broadband DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 87.86.189.16
    Secondary DNS: 87.86.189.17
    Tertiary DNS: 195.40.1.36
    ​
  • Virgin Media DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 194.168.4.100
    Secondary DNS: 194.168.8.100​

​
USA

  • Google Fibre DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8
    Secondary DNS: 8.8.4.4
    ​
  • Comcast DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 68.87.85.98 (West Coast)
    Secondary DNS: 68.87.64.146 (East Coast)
    Primary IPv6 DNS: 2001:558:1004:6:68:87:85:98 (West Coast)
    Secondary IPv6 DNS: 2001:558:1002:B:68:87:64:146 (East Coast)
    ​

​

Source (including alternative servers for above countries): DNS Servers - What's My DNS?
 
little_pob said:
Australia

  • aaNet DNS Servers
    Victoria
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 203.123.94.40
    South Austalia
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 203.123.69.15
    Western Australia
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 202.76.136.40
    Queensland
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 202.76.170.40
    New South Wales
    Primary DNS: 203.24.100.125
    Secondary DNS: 203.123.69.15
    ​

​
New Zealand

  • Xtra DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 202.27.158.40
    Secondary DNS: 202.27.156.72
    ​

​
UK

  • BT Broadband DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 62.6.40.178
    Secondary DNS: 62.6.40.162
    Tertiary DNS: 194.72.9.38
    ​
  • Sky Broadband DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 87.86.189.16
    Secondary DNS: 87.86.189.17
    Tertiary DNS: 195.40.1.36
    ​
  • Virgin Media DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 194.168.4.100
    Secondary DNS: 194.168.8.100​

​
USA

  • Google Fibre DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 8.8.8.8
    Secondary DNS: 8.8.4.4
    ​
  • Comcast DNS Servers
    Primary DNS: 68.87.85.98 (West Coast)
    Secondary DNS: 68.87.64.146 (East Coast)
    Primary IPv6 DNS: 2001:558:1004:6:68:87:85:98 (West Coast)
    Secondary IPv6 DNS: 2001:558:1002:B:68:87:64:146 (East Coast)
    ​

​

Source (including alternative servers for above countries): DNS Servers - What's My DNS?
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Because??? For example, I use the Google (8.8.8.8) as a backup in case the ISP goes t!ts up.
 
Him Her said:
I'm intrigued - technically the results should be disappointing?
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they are, unfortunately its not that simple. Unless their geo-software is really kak (i.e. they are not using any) it won't work. I use 8.8.8.8 as my primary anyway and netflix, hulu etc don't work, iPlayer works fine.
 
oneman said:
they are, unfortunately its not that simple. Unless their geo-software is really kak (i.e. they are not using any) it won't work. I use 8.8.8.8 as my primary anyway and netflix, hulu etc don't work, iPlayer works fine.
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Can I suggest summat that should work or is it too public an area?
 
wiz569 said:
Now come on H H?
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Not sure how to take that lol

Anyway, DNS on it's own doesn't really cut the mustard here, what you need is a non-caching anonymous proxy server that is located in the correct area. Tor doesn't do this as it's randomised as are most services (such as hidemyass) - in other words they are designed to hide your location rather than spoof it in a specific area.

I suppose you could manually tweak away until you get the setup you want but tunlr appears to do this for you by default?

I've left the link out just in case but I'm sure you'll be 'bold' enough to figure it out ;)
 
oneman said:
they are, unfortunately its not that simple. Unless their geo-software is really kak (i.e. they are not using any) it won't work. I use 8.8.8.8 as my primary anyway and netflix, hulu etc don't work, iPlayer works fine.
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Him Her said:
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Anyway, DNS on it's own doesn't really cut the mustard here, what you need is a non-caching anonymous proxy server that is located in the correct area...
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Interesting...

Are you saying is it's wrong to assume that all DNS IP addresses are going to have the desired effect just because they're located in the country of interest - as in some might work if you trial and error - or that it specifically has to be a proxy DNS?

As a side question, how would ISPs' transparent DNS proxies effect this? (If at all.)
Him Her said:
...I suppose you could manually tweak away until you get the setup you want but tunlr appears to do this for you by default?

I've left the link out just in case but I'm sure you'll be 'bold' enough to figure it out ;)
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Nothing wrong with linking to tunlr.net. It's a free service and it's perfectly legal to change those settings.
 
little_pob said:
Interesting...

Are you saying is it's wrong to assume that all DNS IP addresses are going to have the desired effect just because they're located in the country of interest - as in some might work if you trial and error - or that it specifically has to be a proxy DNS?

As a side question, how would ISPs' transparent DNS proxies effect this? (If at all.)

Nothing wrong with linking to tunlr.net. It's a free service and it's perfectly legal to change those settings.
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Tunlr works by sending the DNS lookup result back which is not the address of the streaming service but that of a http proxy geographically located in the correct country. The data sent to the proxy includes your own IP but the proxy IP is used for authentication. Once authentication is complete (and geoip-lookup is completed at this stage) then the data stream is direct to your machine making the connection almost as fast as it would have been without the proxy in the way.

The ISP DNS servers won't do this, they'll simply pass the IP of the stream and when you connect geoip-lookup will detect that you're not in the correct location.
 
Oh, do a DNS 'leak test' too so you can verify your ISP is not transparently intercepting DNS requests making it APPEAR you are using a DNS server you selected.

It all gets a bit messy sometimes but you can start here - What is a transparent DNS proxy?
 
Him Her said:
Oh, do a DNS 'leak test' too so you can verify your ISP is not transparently intercepting DNS requests making it APPEAR you are using a DNS server you selected.

It all gets a bit messy sometimes but you can start here - What is a transparent DNS proxy?
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Although I can watch Hulu and Netflix US using the Media Fire plug in for FireFox; I was contemplating getting a PS3 - hence the question.

I'm currently running default settings on the ISP provided router. With Media Fire enabled a leak test picks up nothing, with it disabled it pickings up what you'd expect. But that site is what prompted the question as to whether transparent DNS proxies would affect tunlr etc.

Rather than speculate suppose I'd probably be better getting the PS3 and trying the tunlr details, then go from there.
 
Well, you could easily test it. It seems transparent DNS proxies are not well understood? Basically, when you connect to your ISP you actually connect to their firewall rather than directly. A DNS lookup is directed from your network to whatever IP you selected for the DNS server using port 53 so it's easy for the ISP firewall to use a rule to redirect a port 53 request to one of its own servers. This allows the ISP to more easily block connections to systems it doesn't want you to access.

To test whether you are being transparently proxied try the following:

nslookup hulu.com

Record the IP address (the results I get vary)

Follow this immediately with:

nslookup hulu.com 69.197.169.9

I got 23.67.252.40 but the important thing is the normal lookup should be ALWAYS different to the tunlr lookup (the last one). If your results are the same you've probably been nailed by a transparent DNS proxy.

You can ask the ISP to allow DNS passthru but it would be good luck with that one! Alternatively, use a VPN but configure it to use the remote gateway rather than your local gateway or DNS lookups will likely 'leak' back to the ISP.
 
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