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Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)



On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Tixy wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing
> > > name resolution over HTTPS.
> > 
> > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this
> > problematic feature for good for Firefox (basically it creates a
> > bogus
> > NXDOMAIN response for this particular site):
> > 
> > local=/use-application-dns.net/
> > 
> 
> Technically, that doesn't disable it, just just disables any 'on by
> default' DoH [1]. For individual users worried about this, it would be
> simpler not to accept it when Firefox asks to enable it, or to disable
> it it with a config option. [2] That would be needed to be done anyway
> for mobile devices that can roam to different networks.
> 
> [1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/canary-domain-use-application-dnsnet
> [2] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https

Yep. That sounds less fragile. Thanks.

Cheers
-- t

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