Re:A little more privacy centric DNS setup for home users
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @11:34AM
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"And from your IP log, they can easily get the host names if they want them."
And each IP may have multiple hostnames associated with it, requiring more work to determine which one was accessed by the internet subscriber
The VPN also has an IP log for jqpabc
If someone wants to explore jqpabc's "sensitive traffic", it's even easier than asking his ISP. Because jqpabc uses a third party VPN, we just subpoena the VPN and they start logging, unbeknownst to jqpabc
Because the VPN uses a third party DNS cache that sends EDNS client subnet and does not encrypt DNS traffic to authoritative DNS servers, we can also get logs from those servers as well as jqpabc's general location
And of course jqpabc sends plaintext SNI so we have another source of hostnames that he has visited, in addition to plaintext DNS
And each IP may have multiple hostnames associated with it, requiring more work to determine which one was accessed by the internet subscriber
The VPN also has an IP log for jqpabc
If someone wants to explore jqpabc's "sensitive traffic", it's even easier than asking his ISP. Because jqpabc uses a third party VPN, we just subpoena the VPN and they start logging, unbeknownst to jqpabc
Because the VPN uses a third party DNS cache that sends EDNS client subnet and does not encrypt DNS traffic to authoritative DNS servers, we can also get logs from those servers as well as jqpabc's general location
And of course jqpabc sends plaintext SNI so we have another source of hostnames that he has visited, in addition to plaintext DNS