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Latest version of Waterfox includes DNS over HTTPS and Oblivious DNS (www.waterfox.net)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not affiliated with Waterfox at all, but I am a user, and this seems like great news for me.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I can’t speak to Android but all of those require running some DNS recursive resolver locally then pointing the OS resolver to it. While I do that already, it doesn’t really address the issue I’m getting at: the OS doesn’t natively support it.

On macOS/iOS I use a .mobileconfig file to point to my Dockerized DNS over TLS resolver in the cloud and it works great, but why do I need to do that rather than use the “normal” DNS preferences? Command line tools still revert to the DHCP DNS server so on macOS I run unbound to take care of that.

For Linux, I’m mainly running a Raspberry Pi on Alpine Linux with unbound as well; it works great for DHCP clients that get pointed to it but (especially if this were some company LAN) all the DNS queries are still going over the LAN unencrypted.