Re:Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?
by Arnavion on Friday March 11, 2022 @04:16PM
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Right, DNSSEC will solve the "manipulate" problem, but it won't solve the "see" problem. But whether that's a concern is up to you. You could run your resolver on a VPS and speak DoT / DoH to that, which shifts the leak from your ISP to your VPS provider.
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It doesn't solve the "manipulate" problem we're talking about here, either: nothing about DNSSEC prevents a DNS server (or middlebox) from denying results to a disfavored domain; it only (situationally) prevents them from redirecting it somewhere else. (And, of course, it only works if you're running your own recursive server; it does nothing whatsoever in the 8.8.8.8-type use case).
> nothing about DNSSEC prevents a DNS server (or middlebox) from denying results to a disfavored domain
But at least it is detectable thanks to NSEC and NSEC3 records.
Kind of. An intermediary can drop packets and the client will never get the response.
It's detectable when the site that the DNS provider is censoring falls off the Internet!