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DNS

British

abbreviation

Department for National Savings
computing domain name system

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MediaStreamer is a Smart DNS service that changes your DNS server to stream foreign libraries; it does not encrypt your traffic or change your IP address.

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It offers a mix of physical and virtual servers; the latter uses DNS routing to obtain IP addresses from other countries.

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For devices that don’t support VPN connections, like gaming consoles, ExpressVPN also provides a smart DNS feature, called MediaStreamer.

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With MediaStreamer, you change your DNS servers to ExpressVPN’s MediaStreamer DNS servers and you can unlock streaming libraries from other regions.

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But MediaStreamer doesn’t encrypt your traffic or change your IP address — it’s just a DNS service.

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