Dns

I live in Indonesia. Here, ISP and telcos likes to do the absurd: hijacking DNS queries. Public DNS services like Google (8.8.8.8), Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), OpenDNS (208.67.222.222), etc are hijacked at the ISP level. Even more so, if you’re on Telkom Indihome, they will also hijack websites you visit with their content. All the other telcos are doing the same thing for our paid data plans. So I thought why not overkill this, I got plenty of RAM, CPU Cores and storage on my Hackintosh. ...

I got tired of manually inserting lines into my /etc/hosts file and decided to look for other solutions. The DD-WRT router has a DNSMAsq feature in which I list domains that are supposed to be internal domains to be resolved to its local IP. I still have to insert lines but now it’s more organized and better than seeing mumbo jumbo in your hosts file. Here are my steps: [gist][/gist] ...