Hello, I haven't been able to manage my blog for a long time due to my busy schedule.

As you know, there has been a filtering effort on the internet in our country, and YouTube was blocked, as well as Twitter, but the ban was lifted.

Many of us can access desired sites by changing DNS settings, using proxy, or VPN.

A lot of people who didn't know what DNS, proxy, or VPN are have learned about them with the blocking of Twitter.

To make it more understandable, let's briefly explain each of them.

What is DNS?

Blocking by DNS is done by redirecting the IP addresses of the sites from your internet service provider's DNS to a different location. Changing the DNS allows us to access blocked sites.

What is a Proxy?

A proxy allows us to access the internet through another machine. In other words, we access the desired sites through a proxy server over the internet. There are different types of proxies. Some hide our real IP address, while others only serve as intermediaries for accessing blocked sites.

What is VPN?

In VPN, the situation is almost the same as with a proxy, but the difference is that the connection is entirely made through the VPN server physically. Every computer connected to the VPN server gets a private local IP address (like 192.168.2.75, 192.168.2.76). Our real IP address is hidden. With a VPN abroad, you can access any blocked sites you want.

Now, let's talk about Google DNS. Those who use Google DNS are not actually using Google DNS because when we check the connection to the 8.8.8.8 IP address, which should lead to Google, it ends up in Ankara.

Similarly, OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 stays in the same place when checked.

When I checked Google DNS from a server abroad, the connection goes directly to the Google server.

So, the DNS IPs we use in our country, which we think are used, are directed to Ankara and every action we take on the internet is monitored.

When I checked the Comodo DNS IP address, it reaches the Comodo servers from my computer.

As seen, the DNS IPs we use, which are provided by our internet service providers, are spoofed to look like Google DNS or OpenDNS. This situation is a type of attack usually made by cybercriminals against internet users in public networks, but the spoofing process performed by internet service providers is done as a way of tracking what we do on the internet more easily and controlling who goes where. Therefore, we need to be a little more careful while browsing the internet.