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cross-posted from: https://kerala.party/post/347631

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

A hard coded IP would mean it's unencrypted DNS which can be force-redirected to your router with NAT rules.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

True, don't know how I missed that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You need to use an IP address (as opposed to FQDN) for DNS because when your computer starts up, it won't be able to resolve the FQDN to do DNS lookups.

Cloudflare DNS over TLS famously is using the IP address of 1.1.1.1: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/encryption/dns-over-tls/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

My computer uses unencrypted DNS and sends the queries to my router. My router does the encryption for forwarded DNS queries sent to the internet. There's no need to encrypt DNS traffic in a LAN unless you don't trust this LAN. The WAN (internet) is where evil people try to snoop on you.