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Re: [dns-privacy] Multiple DNS requests per packet, multiple packet responses

Paul Wouters <paul@nohats.ca> Wed, 19 March 2014 19:39 UTC

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

> If you take DNS messages and encrypt them, the result is not DNS
> messages.

That depends. If you use a new RRTYPE for this, it could very well be
DNS.

> If people are encrypting by whatever means, then they should be on a
> different port. But that is easy enough to do.

And trivial to block by adversaries?

Paul

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