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Sounds a bit weird, if it's just pure dns. Because if your dns server gives you a random proxy server instead, it sounds like this would break https right?
No it wouldn't break. HTTPS is the end-to-end encryption of HTTP. As long as you pass the original connection without altering it it'll be safe.
Right - DNS would pass your connection to a geographically different server, with which you create a secure connection.
The question was about a "random proxy server". You can proxy HTTPS as a third party too without breaking it.
I'm not saying that's what they are doing though. It's possible they do this by just serving an IP in a different country. I haven't looked too much into it. In neither of the cases it would break HTTPS.
Good point. Thanks for helping me read more carefully!