Re: [dns-privacy] Trying to understand DNS resolver 'discovery'

2019-11-26 Thread Brian Dickson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 10:13 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:51:14AM -0800, > Brian Dickson wrote > a message of 98 lines which said: > > > However, if the only place the client is able to establish an > > encrypted path to is a forwarder, this leave open the

Re: [dns-privacy] Trying to understand DNS resolver 'discovery'

2019-11-26 Thread Brian Dickson
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 9:35 AM Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > This notion of DNS resolver discovery seems very strange to me. > The larger issue (and the one I am interested in finding solutions for) is that what is configured as a 'resolver', might actually be a 'forwarder'. I.e. the path is

Re: [dns-privacy] Trying to understand DNS resolver 'discovery'

2019-11-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 09:51:14AM -0800, Brian Dickson wrote a message of 98 lines which said: > However, if the only place the client is able to establish an > encrypted path to is a forwarder, this leave open the possibility > that the forwarder->(forwarder->[...])->resolver might involve

Re: [dns-privacy] Trying to understand DNS resolver 'discovery'

2019-11-26 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 1:08 PM Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:35:13PM -0500, > Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote > a message of 166 lines which said: > > > 2) Admin/User Configured DNS > > The client obtains the information to connect to a resolver through > an > >

[dns-privacy] Trying to understand DNS resolver 'discovery'

2019-11-26 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
This notion of DNS resolver discovery seems very strange to me. There are three ways in which a DNS resolver can be realistically determined by a client whether that is in the platform (Windows/OSX/Linux/etc) or the application. 1) Promiscuous DNS The client obtains the information to connect

Re: [dns-privacy] Trying to understand DNS resolver 'discovery'

2019-11-26 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:35:13PM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote a message of 166 lines which said: > 2) Admin/User Configured DNS > The client obtains the information to connect to a resolver through an > Administrator or User configuration action. This may be inserting an IP >