This may seem like edging towards paranoia, however, how many of you do a pre-flight check of your network before you use your devices?
Every morning when I start up my computer, I do a pre-flight check against sites like DNSLeakCheck, and several others. It’s a back check to make sure my network is operating in as private, secured, and an anonymous manner as possible, and perhaps give me a little more peace of mind.
To facilitate this in an expedient manner, I wrote a simple bat script to do just that.
@echo off
echo Opening websites in succession...
:: List of websites to open
set "websites=grc.com cloudflare.com/ssl/encrypted-sni browserleaks.com/dns dnscheck.tools ipleak.net"
:: Delay between opening each website (in seconds)
set "delay=5"
:: Loop through each website and open it
for %%i in (%websites%) do (
echo Opening %%i...
start "" "https://%%i"
timeout /t %delay% /nobreak >nul
)
echo All websites opened.
# pause
Critique, input always welcomed.
What are you attempting to achieve by opening this list of urls?
What is the difference between running this script and setting this list as either a bookmark, or the homepage in your browser?
What does your network have to do with the reachability of these sites?
If you’re managing the privacy of your own network, why are you not monitoring those services?
Making sure that my DNS isn’t leaking any info it shouldn’t. Checking to see if all my obfuscation techniques are still protecting.
Nothing. More convenient for me to have a script. As far as start pages, all I want there is a blank page.
Nothing. These are sites used to check for various things as stated earlier, like dns leak checks, etc.
They are heavily monitored.