Some of the recent discussion on the DNSops list have prompted me to wonder if DNS-over-HTTPS actually solves any significant problem or if in fact it may be a case of the “cure” being worse than the disease. Continue reading
This is a follow up to my previous article “Some problems with DoH!“. Given that Cloudflare are the preferred partner of Mozilla who are threatening to impose DNS-over-HTTPS on the majority of people I thought it worth while to have a look at what they have to say for themselves. All of this information is taken from https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/ as it was on 14th August 2018 ( archive.org link ). Some of my commentary may verge on the pedantic*, but given the nature of what is being proposed I think a little** pedantry and cynicism is called for. I may be mainly asking cynical and paranoid questions, given the weasel words and behaviour we’ve all seen from other companies I think this is justified for someone selling themselves on privacy. Continue reading
With recent announcements from Mozilla about wanting to use DNS-over-HTTPS by default and partnering with Cloudflare to at least test this, I’ve been giving the matter of DoH quite a bit of thought. This is therefore the first of two possibly three articles dealing with various aspects of DNS over HTTPS. For those that are unaware the idea behind DNS-over-HTTPS ( henceforth DoH ) is that DNS isn’t by default secure or private so let tunnel it over HTTPS so that those pesky firewalls don’t get in the way and secure it that way. This will allegedly make DNS faster, more private and just all round better. Personally I think it will do few if any of those things and that the problems it will create will far out weight any perceived benefits. As Bert Hurbert said this looks a lot more like a land grab by CDN and browser… Continue reading