Re:Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
by gumby on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:07AM
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> Querying nameservers is being pushed into applications themselves...
I agree: this absurd trend will lead to every app essentially including an entire O/S. There are several reason why OSes provide services to applications and one is that the OS manages the user's configuration (e.g. what devices are plugged in, where and how to resolve names, cacheing data, etc).
I also find it rather insane the amount of overhead required to resolve a name when an entire http connection needs to be set up and torn down for the process.
Re:Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH
by rusk on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:46PM
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I presume there’s some kind of connection pooling going on ... but yeah you’ve still got the needless verbosity of HTTP for a specialised high volume protocol ...
I agree: this absurd trend will lead to every app essentially including an entire O/S. There are several reason why OSes provide services to applications and one is that the OS manages the user's configuration (e.g. what devices are plugged in, where and how to resolve names, cacheing data, etc).
I also find it rather insane the amount of overhead required to resolve a name when an entire http connection needs to be set up and torn down for the process.