Sorry Telstra but this is my F@ST 5355 router:
Roughly a week ago I decided to give https://pi-hole.net/ a go having endured yet another ad laden website. All went we'll[sic], installation was smooth and was up and running 15 minutes later.
All that remained was to set my routers(sic) DNS server to the pi's and my home devices would be safe. I remember seeing the option in there for it.
WTF, it was now disabled. A quick google around revealed that about a year ago (June 2017) Telstra simply decided to remove that functionality.
Surely it had nothing to do with the Australian government implementing DNS based censorship in June 2017?
So fuck you Telstra, that's my router you made me purchase. Time to find out how to take it back.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @07:36PM (3 children)
A story about Australia gets published while the .majority of Australians are asleep.
Can't TMB tweak the scheduling code for stories to be discussed when it's relevant to its regional users?
/End rant - it's 5:30 am and I'm going back to bed.
ultimately any router connects to the NBN 'modem' that connects to the street, which the government monopoly enforced upon us when they ripped out our telephone lines and ADSL. So any wifi router might do but I wonder if our overlords could simply just apply a firmware update to the NBN black box to mandate a DNS.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 20 2020, @10:36PM
The story is also about 2 years old, so I don't think relevant timing was foremost on the submitter's mind.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday July 20 2020, @10:39PM
https://soylentnews.org/index.rss [soylentnews.org]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 1) by kai_h on Tuesday July 21 2020, @03:04AM