[Skunkleton]

Personally, I highjack all DNS requests made on my network at my router, then use a VPN tunnel to resolve them on a server that I control that runs unbound. My guess is that FIOS was doing the same to you, just without your interests in mind.

A similar setup to mine could be deployed at your network edge, and it could then force all of your port 53 DNS requests to go over a more secure protocol. Of course you would have to figure out how to set this up, and it wouldn't protect your devices anywhere except your home network.

[Klathmon]

>My guess is that FIOS was doing the same to you, just without your interests in mind.

It wasn't FIOS doing it, the IP was in Israel and was known as a malware serving IP.

[tracker1]

Could be your router was hacked too...

[Klathmon]

I had tried 2 different routers and got the same result, including bypassing the router at one point, and I even ran my router's WAN through a wireless hotspot on my phone at one point and saw the problem stop.