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> I am against individual applications making their own DNS queries But every other network request they will ever make is fine if they do it themselves? Like
by Spivak 3y ago
> I am against individual applications making their own DNS queries
But every other network request they will ever make is fine if they do it themselves? Like at some point we have to be like DNS being a service provided by the system to apps was mostly a historical accident or an idea for a network model that never really panned out.
I would have loved to see the alternate universe where your typical unprivileged app has no direct access to sockets and routes all requests through a system service that handles all the application-layer protocols and encryption.
- eadmund 3y ago> Like at some point we have to be like DNS being a service provided by the system to apps was mostly a historical accident or an idea for a network model that never really panned out. I think that I prefer the network model where I the system owner have control over what the programs executing on my behalf are doing on my system and my network. I really don’t want to be presented the choice of binary blob A, binary blob B or living without Internet access. > I would have loved to see the alternate universe where your typical unprivileged app has no direct access to sockets and routes all requests through a system service that handles all the application-layer protocols and encryption. Ditto.