Protecting Your Online Privacy: AriaVPN DNS Servers
The Domain Name System (DNS) is an integral part of the internet. It acts as a directory that helps your device locate websites by converting their domain names into IP addresses that computers use to communicate.
DNS servers work hand in hand with other servers like web servers, email servers, or VPN servers to ensure fast and secure website access. When you enter a website's domain name (for example, www.ariavpn.net ) into your browser, your device sends a request to a DNS resolver. The resolver then queries the DNS hierarchy to find the IP address associated with that domain name.
DNS operates on a vast distributed network of servers worldwide, ensuring efficient and reliable resolution of domain names. It helps to improve internet performance by caching frequently accessed domain information, reducing the time required for subsequent requests. Without DNS, accessing different websites would be highly impractical, as you would have to remember a long series of numbers.
When you connect to AriaVPN, your internet traffic is routed through our trusted DNS servers, bypassing any existing DNS servers specified by your local configuration and the configuration of your router. It means that your DNS queries are encrypted inside a secure VPN tunnel, along with your internet traffic, providing an additional layer of security, thus shielding your online activities from the prying eyes of your ISP or any other third party. Such an arrangement also prevents DNS hijacking and protects against malicious activities such as DNS spoofing or man-in-the-middle attacks.
To us, as a VPN service provider, maintaining your privacy and anonymity online is a founding part of our commitment to excellent service, and in-house no-logs DNS servers help us achieve that. With AriaVPN, all DNS queries are routed through our DNS servers, ensuring they never bypass the VPN tunnel and are never sent directly to your ISP's DNS servers. By blocking outside DNS servers, AriaVPN prevents potential DNS leaks that could expose your online activities and compromise your privacy. This way, you can rest assured that your online activities remain private and secure.
In addition, we use Pi-Hole in an anonymous mode alongside in-house DNS servers exclusively dedicated to each VPN server. Pi-Hole is software that reliably blocks a wide range of advertisements and internet trackers at the network level by acting as a DNS sinkhole. DNS-based blocking of ads and trackers prevents unwanted tracking, enhances page load times, and minimizes the risk of falling prey to phishing attacks. It also blocks conventional website advertisements, as well as non-standard places like mobile operating system advertisements and smart TV advertisements. Pi-hole functions much like a network firewall, which means that it blocks ads and tracking domains for all devices connected to AriaVPN. Unlike traditional ad-blockers that only work on a user's browser and remove ads solely on the same machine, this solution stands out. It goes beyond the limitations of browser-based ad-blockers, allowing for a more comprehensive approach to blocking ads across multiple devices and platforms.
With AriaVPN and in-house DNS servers equipped with Pi-Hole, your online experience is better, safer, faster, and truly private.
If you want to learn more about DNS servers and how they work, you can read more about them from these trusted sources.
- Pi-Hole
- Introduction to DNS Privacy
- DNS Explained: How Does DNS Work?
- The Impact of DNS (Domain Name System) on Internet Security and Privacy
