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Kinda off-topic, but I wonder if the adoption of DNS-over-HTTPS will eventually solve the ossification problem you're referring to by moving DNS resolution to t
by Ajedi32 6y ago
Kinda off-topic, but I wonder if the adoption of DNS-over-HTTPS will eventually solve the ossification problem you're referring to by moving DNS resolution to the application level.
- acdha 6y agoIt can definitely help since you're removing the network operator from the critical path. Large enterprises and ISPs are, not without reason, very conservative about breaking legacy clients but a browser vendor only has to worry about their own software in the release they ship DoH in (with some caveats they've addressed about internal split-view DNS, etc.) so they don't have to deal with complaints if, say, including an extra header breaks 5% of old IoT devices which haven't had an update in a decade.