Using a not censoring DNS-Server

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Normally, you automatically would use the DNS-server of your ISP to resolve domain names like www.freerk.com to 62.141.48.209. Internally, only these IP-addresses are used to send/receive data in the Internet. If your DNS-server is censoring, you simply can use another DNS-server. Under Windows, just right-click in your system panel on the 'network' icon and select properties of the TCP/IP-protocol. In Linux you have to edit the '/etc/resolv.conf' file. Use the server that is (virtual) your nearest. If you want to setup your own DNS-server use Bind (http://www.isc.org/products/BIND/). The list of the 13 official root servers is located here: ftp://ftp.rs.internic.net/domain/named.root for redundancy it would be good to ad the alternative root servers located in Europe from ORSN: ftp://ftp.orsn.org/orsn/orsn.hint.

It's also possible to act as a manual DNS server by yourself. Just use the ping or traceroute service on a non censoring machine to get the IP of your desired server. Then use the IP instead of the URL in your browser. You will always get an IP, but it won't work every time to access the website via the IP, because a lot of webhosters host up to 500 or more websites on one server with one IP. But it will work fine with bigger websites.

http://vr.visualroute.it/ - Italy (JAVA VISUALROUTE)

https://www.velia.net/tools/traceroute.php - Hanau, Germany (HTTPS encrypted)

http://www.traceroute.org/ - About 1000 public ping/traceroute gateways sorted by country

More info: http://www.encyclopedia-online.info/DNS
http://www.encyclopedia-online.info/Root_nameserver

Last update: 2006-01-05