Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-16 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 07:49:28 -0400 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Accessing the mirrors via https makes the packages un-cacheable, which > > > makes the traffic volume significantly greater -- and the package

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Wed 15 Apr 2020 at 07:49:28 (-0400), Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > Accessing the mirrors via https makes the packages un-cacheable, which > > > makes the traffic volume significantly greater -- and the pack

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:12:47PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > Accessing the mirrors via https makes the packages un-cacheable, which > > makes the traffic volume significantly greater -- and the package lists > > are already signed, so there's no gain in trustworthine

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/14/20, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything >> is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster >> switched to using https for downloading updates?) > > The apt-tran

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 05:45:45 -0400 Lee wrote: > On 4/13/20, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 > > Reco wrote: > > > >>Hi. > >> > >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart T

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 14 apr 20, 07:32:58, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything > > is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster > > switched to using https for downloading updates?

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Reco
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:06:05AM -0400, Lee wrote: > >> Right. The ISP can't see what names the user is looking up but > >> Cloudflare sees every single one. On the other hand, take a look at > >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DOH-resolver-policy > > > > An interesting declaration. For in

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 01:48:24PM +0200, n...@dismail.de wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:06:05 -0400, Lee wrote: > > Is there some other DNS provider that has a published privacy policy? > > That's anywhere near as good as CloudFlare's? > > > > To be clear - I'm not saying you should trust

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread nito
On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 07:06:05 -0400, Lee wrote: > Is there some other DNS provider that has a published privacy policy? > That's anywhere near as good as CloudFlare's? > > To be clear - I'm not saying you should trust CloudFlare. It's just > that I don't see a whole lot of options & quite po

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: > dnssec just adds a cryptographic signature to the data -- everything > is still done "in the clear" (like Debian updates. or has buster > switched to using https for downloading updates?) The apt-transport-https package is available, but is n

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/14/20, Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not >> >> > trust >> >> > your local resolver.

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 > Reco wrote: > >> Hi. >> >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > ... > >> > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart TVs >> > using DOH. >> >> Probably because they aren't there yet. A t

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-14 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 07:03:12PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 4/13/20, tomas wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > Agreed. But how many home users have a local sys admin? That knows > how to configure the local resolver? > > OK .. on this list, probably most. But

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 06:42:10PM -0400, Lee wrote: > On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not > >> > trust > >> > your local resolver. > >> > >> Mozilla claims it's a pr

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 08:47:22 +0300 Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: ... > > I just did a quick search and couldn't find anything for smart TVs > > using DOH. > > Probably because they aren't there yet. A typical smart TV is based on > the Androi

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, tomas wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > [...] > >> Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https >> Benefits > > Yes, sure [1], but *not in each and every friggin' application*. I prefer apps that d

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Lee
On 4/13/20, Reco wrote: > Hi. Hi > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: >> > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not >> > trust >> > your local resolver. >> >> Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: >> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dn

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 16:19:55 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > Whether Do

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Reco
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:14:44PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > [...] > > > > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server. > > > > Yup. T

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 13 Apr, 2020 at 12:57:54 +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > > Whether DoH or DNS-over-TLS, you have to trust the DNS server. > > Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own > too, using o

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:57:54PM +0300, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...] > Yup. That's why I have my own, and every Debian user can have their own > too, using only free software. ...and that is why I want the apps on my box to

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 11:16:02AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 13 apr 20, 08:47:22, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > > > How many people use a dnssec validating resolver? > > > > See above. Besides, DNSSEC is for integrity of zones,

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Lu, 13 apr 20, 08:47:22, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > > How many people use a dnssec validating resolver? > > See above. Besides, DNSSEC is for integrity of zones, not privacy. > You need DNS-over-TLS if you need last one. > > > > At least Cloudflare

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-13 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: [...] > Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https > Benefits Yes, sure [1], but *not in each and every friggin' application*. It'd be OK for the local DNS caching resolver to forward

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
Hi. On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:46:38PM -0400, Lee wrote: > > The questionable idea behind DOH is that the browser makers do not trust > > your local resolver. > > Mozilla claims it's a privacy issue: > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-dns-over-https It's a privacy issue along

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Lee
On 4/12/20, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: >> > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >> > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing >> >

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 09:39:09 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > [...] > > > I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems > > to me that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a > > plain dns lookup. >

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:34:07PM +0100, Tixy wrote: > On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > > > This simple

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 07:33:51AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: [...] > I don't either, but at some point in an https environment, it seems to me > that a dns lookup is going to have to be translated into a plain dns > lookup. No, that's not how it works. When the browser wants to resolve a name

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 02:03:55PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] > > [1] That's not a rhethorical flourish, it's genuine. I know too > >little about DNS-over-HTTP to be of any use at this point. > > The questionable idea behind D

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Tixy
On Sun, 2020-04-12 at 13:21 +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this > problematic

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 April 2020 06:35:44 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > > > T

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:35:44PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > > name resolution over HTTPS. >

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread tomas
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 01:21:08PM +0300, Reco wrote: > On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > > name resolution over HTTPS. > > This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this > prob

Re: DOH (was: geolocation services disabled and Gnome maps)

2020-04-12 Thread Reco
On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 12:10:45PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > That's why I cringe at the idea that browsers want to start doing > name resolution over HTTPS. This simple one line of dnsmasq configuration will disable this problematic feature for good for Firefox (basically it creates a bogus