This DNS over HTTP thing

Curtis Maurand cmaurand at gmail.com
Thu Oct 3 14:23:44 UTC 2019


Power DNS has a ha proxy/load balancer that does dns over https.  That way
you're not limited to google's and cloudflare's dns servers which exist to
drive advertising to you and give a single shource for tracking.

dns over https:  feh

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 5:28 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "John Levine" <johnl at iecc.com>
>
> > In article <804699748.1254612.1570037049931.JavaMail.zimbra at baylink.com>
> you
> > write:
> >>Tools. Are. Neutral.
> >>
> >>Any solution to a problem that involves outlawing or breaking tools will.
> >>Not. Solve. Your. Problem.
> >
> > I think in the outside world you'll find very little support for an
> argument
> > that filtering DNS is fundamentally broken.
> >
> > Sure, you can do it in broken ways, but it's going to be really hard
> > to persuade anyone that their lives are better if they have unfiltered
> > access to the malware links in their spam.
>
> I expect I would.
>
> But this is not "filtering DNS".  It's "making a bodge-handed attempt to
> REPLACE DNS (well, proxy it) for only one application/layer".
>
> My problem isn't what they're using it for; it's that they've implemented
> it so poorly.
>
> I live down here in the trenches, John, where "it doesn't work" is the
> calibre
> of problem reports I get.  When my tools say that "yes, it does", *I'm*
> the one
> who takes it in the nads because Mozilla had a Better Fuckin' Idea.
>
> That it will likely cause lots of 50,000ft problems to is just a cherry on
> the
> top.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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