On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 02:40:53PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> The patch below add opportunistic DoT to unwind.  Some background
> info:
> 
> The purpose of unwind is to provide secure DNS services even when
> the available nameservers are broken or filtered like in many hotels.
> To do that, it prefers DNSSEC whenever possible and changes to do
> resolving by itself if needed.
> 
> DNSSEC only offers integrity and authenticity.  To protect
> eavesdropping on the requests in transit, encryption is needed, as
> offered by e.g. DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTP (DoT). unwind

That second DoT should be DoH.

> already supports DoT for forwarders but only when explicitly
> configured to do so.
> 
> This diff makes unwind try DoT for forwarders and nameservers learned
> via DHCP and fall back to plaintext if it does not work.
> 
> Which DoT servers to use for testing? Most quad-whatever open DNS
> resolvers like 9.9.9.9 support DoT so you can specify them as a
> forwarder.  But please note the privacy policies and realize they see
> all your DNS queries.  You might consider reading [1] which offers DoT
> on 136.144.215.158 as well and has a good privacy policy and is in

Not that the mentioned privacy page talsk about DoH and does not
mention DoT, but the IP does offer DoT.

[1] https://powerdns.org/doh/privacy.html

        -Otto


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