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AT&T and Spectrum do not administer your home network, you do. You have the freedom to configure whatever DNS settings you want; if you wish to use their DNS s
by zeveb 7y ago
AT&T and Spectrum do not administer your home network, you do. You have the freedom to configure whatever DNS settings you want; if you wish to use their DNS servers you may; if you wish not to, then you may not.
DoH is a non-solution to a non-problem which makes privacy strictly worse by leaking information to Cloudflare in addition to one's ISP.
- Spivak 7y agoYou are a client on AT&T and Spectrum's network. Just because you turn on a router and set up NAT doesn't make this fact any less true. At some point your internet traffic is going to flow AT&T's network where they are the administrators and are free to apply whatever network policy they see fit. DoH and DoT is a solution to the problem of sending your DNS requests unencrypted, leaking them to everyone in the process, and then opening the door to any malicious network operator in between you and your DNS server the ability to modify the response in-flight. Your ISP can and should provide DoH servers. Your local network is free to do the same.
- zeveb 7y agoI agree with you: your local network is free to set up a resolver using DoH (or DoT, which is far more sane than an entire HTTPS connexion). That's the correct place for it to live, or possibly at the individual device level. It is 100% not the place of an application to meddle with network services, particularly not by default.
- Spivak 7y agoHow dare an application use a socket to make a network request using an application layer protocol for its own use.