Re: This DNS over HTTP thing

[Damian Menscher via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:22 PM Jeroen Massar <jeroen () massar ch> wrote:

> On 2019-10-01 21:38, Damian Menscher wrote:
>
> > Could someone provide a reference of Google saying they'll change the
> default nameserver?  Without that, I think all of Jeroen's arguments fall
> apart?
>
> While I stated:
>
> > > Moving only your DNS to Cloudflare or Google does not solve the
> security stance,
> > > even though that is what people are marketing this whole DoH move
> for....
>
> I did not state what you write above ("Changing the default nameserver").
> (Noting also, that the 'default nameserver' is the system one, not the one
> being just being used by the browser...)

Heh, nice troll -- I wasted a few minutes writing a long response about how
you did, in fact, say that multiple times in this thread.

Should be obvious to non-trolls that I was referring to Google changing the
default nameserver *in Chrome*, as obviously Google doesn't have root
access to change it on the host.

But, likely in the long run that will happen won't it? As Firefox is
> already being used as a test base if it works...

My crystal ball stopped working when I dropped it last week.  Need to get
it repaired before I can answer.

Damian

Noting also, that none of my arguments fall apart with that. But hey, just
> skip over the whole thread, or even the TLDR... kthx!
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen