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I disabled IPv6 altogether, and Apple’s processes are still finding a way to resolve their real IPs after my DNS and /etc/hosts resolved their domains to 0.0.0.
by user3939382 6y ago
I disabled IPv6 altogether, and Apple’s processes are still finding a way to resolve their real IPs after my DNS and /etc/hosts resolved their domains to 0.0.0.0.
DNS should be enough, I shouldn’t have to black hole Apple’s entire /8 to stop macOS from phoning home when I’m not using the computer and no apps are running.
- lilyball 6y agoI suspect the number of macOS machines on networks with misconfigured DNS is far higher than the number of macOS machines whose admins want to prevent them from talking to Apple. So I’m glad they’re going to great lengths to preserve their ability to communicate with Apple even under adverse network conditions.
- user3939382 6y agoI appreciate giving people the benefit of the doubt, but this feels overly charitable to me. I doubt they’re worried about accidentally misconfigured /etc/hosts files. Much more likely is that they were aware of outbound firewalls like Little Snitch and want to evade user attempts to block their software, as discussed in the main article here.