Opendns? Seriously?
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
You'd prefer isp dns? It's a guide written for the layperson.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
I use Google's, myself, but i can't really see a significant difference between their service and opendns. Is there something I'm missing?
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Replying to @wherermypants @SwiftOnSecurity
Opendns used to do NxDomain hijacking but afaik stopped. They still return filtered/doctored results rather than ones matching authoritative
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
Interesting. I've never heard that before.
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Replying to @wherermypants @SwiftOnSecurity
Their whole purpose is blocking domains deemed malware.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
Sure, but could be a benefit for security-illiterate users. Not how I'd personally want my dns to work, but there's a solid use case.
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Replying to @wherermypants @SwiftOnSecurity
If you want that behavior you need to use only opendns. If you also include 8.8.8.8 you'll get unpredictably inconsistent blocking...
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..and since 8.8.8.8 is much faster, in practice you won't get much blocking.
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Using mutually inconsistent dns servers is a really bad idea tho in that it leads to hard-to-diagnose behavior.
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Replying to @RichFelker @SwiftOnSecurity
Fair. I don't know that I've ever mixed servers the way Swifty recommends, but I certainly won't in the future.
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