improve anonymity by getting rid of DNS leaks

[bad_brain]

because of a little personal project I am working on lately I stumbled over the problem of DNS leaks when making requests (visiting a site, sending a mail, etc.), by making DNS requests your real IP can be revealed even if you use services like Tor. ok, not directly by the site you visit or the mailserver you connect, but those requests are logged at your ISP for example (usually the ISP's DNS service is the standard that is pre-set).
there are add-ons for Tor like torsocks, and you can also set specific DNS servers in proxychains, but the first one is a bitch to set up, and the latter one was simply not working for me together with my Perl script.

so here is how you fix this DNS leak IN GENERAL on your system without any extra software:
- if your router acts as gateway check the web admin iface, you should be able to set the used DNS servers there
- if you are connecting directly (or just looped through the router:
- Windows: set the DNS servers in the TCP/IP settings
- Linux: add the DNS servers manually to the interface, syntax is

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auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
dns-nameservers 89.233.43.71 89.104.194.142

so you simply add the dns-nameservers line after the usual iface config.

reboot, then check if the settings have been applied:
- windows: ipconfig /all
- linux nm-tools |grep DNS

there are a couple of anonymous DNS servers that run no logs, I am using 89.233.43.71 89.104.194.142 at the moment, both located in NL and working fast and fine.

[CommonStray]

The DNS i use is in Nigeria, and every time you connect to it your entered into a lottery.

[lilrofl]

The DNS i use is in Nigeria, and every time you connect to it your entered into a lottery.

[computathug]

The DNS i use is in Nigeria, and every time you connect to it your entered into a lottery.

Is that one of them 'win a prize every time' lottery's