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Re: This DNS over HTTP thing


From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 19:18:29 +0000 (UTC)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <bortzmeyer () nic fr>

On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 11:56:33PM -0400,
Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net> wrote
a message of 10 lines which said:

It's use-application-dns.net.  NXDOMAIN it, and Mozilla (at least)
will go back to using your local DNS server list as per usual.

Unless, I hope, the user explicitely overrides this. (Because this
canary domain contradicts DoH's goals, by allowing the very party you
don't trust to remotely disable security.)

Security?

This is thought to be about security?

Didn't we already *fix* DNS SECurity?

No, I tend to buy the "Alphabet looking over your shoulder" argument
a lot more than 'security', here, so far.

Cheers,
-- jra
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