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Re:A little more privacy centric DNS setup for home users by dongcarl on Saturday September 27, 2025 @10:10AM (#45395858)
Actually, they don’t need to do a reverse lookup at all.

They can just look at the TLS SNI field and the hostname is there in plaintext.

It’s _more_ trouble to do the reverse lookup.

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Re:A little more privacy centric DNS setup for home users by jqpabc123 on Saturday September 27, 2025 @10:23AM (#45395956)
It’s _more_ trouble to do the reverse lookup.

It’s _more_ trouble to even bother with hostnames at all.

Just log IPs. By doing so, you're capturing the same essential data in a more compact form.

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