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Re: Open Resolver Problems
From: Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 08:40:42 -0400
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 11:20:54AM +0000, Nick Hilliard wrote:
I'm struggling to understand why it's necessary to hard-code dns servers into the ip networking configuration of a portable device. By definition, these devices will already have dhcp enabled.
It's necessary because many operations are screwing with DNS results in order to advance/suppress political agendas, impose their moral code via censorship, profit via redirection to search portals, etc. If we could actually trust that J. Random Hotel would not do so, then yes, whatever DNS servers are assigned via DHCP would suffice. (Let me caveat this by saying that I don't have a problem with screwing with DNS results for operational reasons, e.g., I think refusing to send DNS queries into DROP-listed space is a good security practice.) ---rsk
Current thread:
- Re: Open Resolver Problems, (continued)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Christopher Morrow (Mar 25)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Nick Hilliard (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Dobbins, Roland (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Patrick W. Gilmore (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Nick Hilliard (Mar 27)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Alain Hebert (Mar 27)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Rich Kulawiec (Mar 27)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Nick Hilliard (Mar 27)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Alain Hebert (Mar 27)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Jared Mauch (Mar 27)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Chris Adams (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Owen DeLong (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Doug Barton (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Owen DeLong (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems joel jaeggli (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems John Levine (Mar 26)
- Re: Open Resolver Problems Matthew Petach (Mar 26)