[PLUG] DNS over HTTPS

Tom tgrom.automail at nuegia.net
Sun Dec 29 10:45:33 UTC 2019


On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 09:43:11 +0000
Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> You were always sending your  DNS queries to them DNS service. This
> time though they are encrypted , so your ISP or a passive observer
> cannot see them.
> 
> What is the problem with that?
> 
> Change you DNS provider back to your ISP is you do not like cloudfare
> or where ever you are sending it at the moment.
> 
> I still see no negatives versus vanilla DNS.
> 
> Tomas
> 
> On Sun, Dec 29, 2019, 09:04 Tom <tgrom.automail at nuegia.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 21:03:21 -0800
> > "Mike C." <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > >
> > > > I would not recommend using it. It's just a way for data-mining
> > > > companies to suck up more of your private life. There's no
> > > > security or reliability to it over normal DNS. In fact, the
> > > > security and reliability is worse.
> > > >
> > >
> > > That's one opinion I haven't heard that I'm admittedly pretty
> > > skeptical about.
> > >
> > > For one, any data mining company, whoever you mind have in mind,
> > > isn't going to be able to see your DNS requests, so they'll have
> > > no idea what you're connecting to.
> > >
> > > What information are you basing your recommendation on?
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> > When you send your DNS queries directly to them, eg cloudflare.
> >
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normal DNS is not centralized. Cloudflare is.

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