DNS problem widely affects Excitel users around the country though. And even private dns does not help which is kind of crazy. Warp was also not connecting for me. PIA connected and forum worked under it.
My friend on Excitel contacted me saying Jellyfin (my media server) isn't working. Rest of the internet was working but for some reason my server was showing Connection Timed Out.
Told him to enable Private DNS on his phone and it started working again.
Root servers also port 53 too which is hijacked. The reason why it don't work is because all the port 53 queries are redirected to their recursive DNS Server.
If you have a VPN you can route DNS Queries over that (set Outgoing Interface to VPN in DNS Resolver).
I wonder what happens if VPN interface is the only outgoing interface. On cold boot pfsense will not be able to resolve since the VPN tunnel will not be up. Kind of chicken and egg problem.
I'm planning to change ISP to Excitel & get its yearly 300mbps plan, but before that i just want to know, is it possible to use Google or cloudfare DNS, directly in Excitel Fiber ONU device ?
unlikely on the excitel onu. you can use encrypted dns on your devices or on your own router in access point mode (dns probably doesn't work on access points though). or get the dumb onu from excitel and use your own router and set dns on that.
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