Taiwan blocks Google's public DNS and uses HiNet's public DNS instead
The Taiwan authorities claim that this is to ensure network security, but whose security is it to ensure?
The problem is that these concerns are the concerns of the Taiwan authorities or the people. The authorities are vigorously pursuing their own DNS services, usually to supervise the Internet communication of the public.
This decision was made in the form of a PDF file published on the news page of the Taiwan authority's Internet Service Network (GSN), which was roughly viewed in Chinese. It was found that GSN outlined the so-called Google DNS service problem and repeatedly reiterated network security issues such as DNS fraud.
"If the use of restricted information sources can be reduced, an appropriate DNS protection mechanism can effectively reduce the risk of DNS spoofing." Many DNS charts clearly show that Google should be a public DNS service and be considered as one of the information sources.
A picture shows that Google's DNS service is used to circumvent the firewall - this is the way many Chinese Internet users use it to flip the great Another photo shows the packet loss when using the service.
On the contrary, Taiwan authorities' slides show the benefits of using their own DNS service (address 210.69.1.1) to search the Internet, many examples of which are China Telecom's Internet Service Provider (HiNet).
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An important slide, users will need to use the government's DNS service to access the Internet in the future.
It is unclear whether Google's DNS service is targeted at the island or government employees, or whether the government service or the government will be forced to use the government service. However, as the slide clearly shows (pictures or text), only DNS requests sent through the government's DNS service will be granted, and other DNS services will be prohibited.
When the authorities adopted the new method, they did not give a specific date.
One of the main groups that Google uses DNS for free is users of the government firewall used to block or review specific services or websites. By providing DNS services, Internet service providers can actually determine what users see, without seeing anything. The service can also be used to monitor a wide range of communities.
Google will serve it as an open choice, but the search giant will receive a lot of data to send what to keep silent.
The Taiwan authorities can also decide to block direct access to the public Internet and ensure that access can only be made through their services - this is a legal but unusual practice to strengthen the network security of employees.
However, it may not be a coincidence that earlier this year, Taiwanese Internet users claimed that they encountered various problems accessing Facebook, YouTube, Google and Gmail.
At that time, only those users who used HiNet broadband and mobile services were affected. After investigation, the Taiwan Communications Commission (NCC) announced that the root cause of the problem was "router overload", but refused to disclose any further information.
NCC assures everyone that the problem is not that many Internet savvy users notice that the report is caused by DNS exceptions of potential hacker activities.
