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Wireless internet not working for us except google.com and youtube.com site, its been 2 days i am unable to check my work emails, so much anger and frustration. btw i am in GTA

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I had to change the apn to get data to work on my rogers phone. when they brought it up the apn had defaulted to the petro-can one so going into settings and changing it to the other proper rogers apn had it all working again for me.

Change your DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 4.4.4.4 for secondary that should get you going for now.

Is this actually true?

If the entire internet is routable but dns is screwing anything that is not major player, that raises a whole host of other questions and is inconsistent with everything i have heard about this outage so far

The original outage wouldn't be circumvented by this however in this person's case they local Rogers resolvers or third party were probably just getting online so they were serving their local resources which is why the bigger entities were loading. So this just piggy backed into their DNS. That's was my thinking anyways.

AFAIK, on iPhone, there is no way of overriding carrier provided DNS.

I think you can get around this by installing VPN app (eg. dnscloak or 1.1.1.1)

Either install an app like the sibling comment suggested, or use one of these profiles: https://encrypted-dns.party/

Thanks, this might be life-changing. Going with MullVad ad-blocking.

Carrier-provided, not without third-party stuff, as others have explained. But the vast majority of users are on WiFi most of the time they are using their phones. When on WiFi, you can control the DNS quite easily.

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