On December 8, 2020 the CentOS project IBM-Redhat announced that it was about to throw away years of good will and trust for seemingly little good reason.
Encrypted DNS Query Transports and Their Trust Models
Recently there have been a couple bits of new on the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) front. Comcast and Mozilla have struck a deal to provide a privacy oriented DoH service for Comcast users in the USA. Apple announced at WWDC 2020 that they are implementing both DoH and DoT on their iOS/iPadOS platforms with iOS/iPadOS 14.
So I feel that it is a good time to talk about the trust models inherent to the DNS query system for residential internet users and where DoH/DoT come in.
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It’s been a good run, my friend
After nearly four years of dutiful service my regular pair of closed back headphones, a Bang & Olufsen H6 (2nd gen) has finally started showing signs of physical material deterioration. More specifically some of the glue that kept the right side of the headband together has dried up and/or lost its adhesion.
Continue reading “Headphone Review: Sennheiser HD 300 Pro”Exploring IPv6 with Docker
Today I set out to figure out how to get outbound IPv6 connectivity working with the Docker setup for Mastodon.
An overview of OS support for IPv6 resolver distribution methods
In this post I will be going over the various levels of support for IPv6 resolver distribution for popular operating systems. Focus on desktop and mobile versions of OSes as those are the ones where we are usually automatically distributing resolver information. Dual stack is implied but IPv6 only functionality can be gleaned from said information as well.
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