This DNS over HTTP thing

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Tue Oct 1 08:08:45 UTC 2019


On Tue, Oct 01, 2019 at 09:55:54AM +0200,
 Jeroen Massar <jeroen at massar.ch> wrote 
 a message of 26 lines which said:

> > (Because this canary domain contradicts DoH's goals, by allowing
> > the very party you don't trust to remotely disable security.)
> 
> The goal is centralization of DNS

Hmmm, no, read RFC 8484 (section 1).

> While the 'connection to the recursor' is 'encrypted', the recursor
> is still in clear text... one just moves who can see what you are
> doing with this.

As with any cryptographic protocol. Same thing with VPNs, SSH and
whatever: the remote end can see what you do. What's your point?




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