Tag Archives: DNS

Cloudflare Keeps 1.1.1.1 Out of Piracy Blocking as French Court Rejects Canal+ Penalties

Servers and network cables in an internet data center

Cloudflare won’t pay daily fines in France for leaving pirate sports sites reachable through its 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. A Paris court rejected a request from pay-TV provider Canal+ to penalize the company and accepted that Cloudflare only has to do what’s reasonable through its CDN. The ruling keeps one of the most popular public resolvers […]

Quad9 Refuses French Piracy Blocks as beIN Sports Seeks 580,000 Euros a Day

A server room with network cables representing DNS infrastructure

Quad9, a Swiss non-profit that runs a free public DNS resolver, is refusing to enforce a French court order that targets pirate sports streams, and it says it may stop serving France altogether. Broadcaster beIN Sports has asked a Paris court to fine the resolver up to 580,000 euros a day over the domains it […]

DNS Leak Test in 2026: How to Check and Fix a DNS Leak with a VPN

Network security setup used to run a DNS leak test on a laptop

Your VPN can show Connected and still leak the exact detail streaming services use to spot you: the location of your DNS resolver. A DNS leak sends every domain lookup outside the encrypted tunnel, so your provider sees the sites you open and the player sees the country you are in. This guide runs a […]