Re: [Doh] [Ext] Are we missing an architecture? (was Re: DNS Camel thoughts: TC and message size)

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> Thu, 14 June 2018 08:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Doh] [Ext] Are we missing an architecture? (was Re: DNS Camel thoughts: TC and message size)
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On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Mukund Sivaraman wrote:

> The switch to DoH at the application layer seems suddenly upon us. I was 
> thinking of DoH just as a fallback transport, but suddenly it seems almost 
> like this is the new way to do DNS queries (a switch).

Users have wanted (and used) "name resolving in the application" layer since a 
long time in various situations. The fact that the standard operating system 
APIs make this hard has never taken away the desire or will for a lot of 
solutions to be able to ask their *preferred* resolvers. Why shouldn't 
applications be able to decide this?

1. DOH doesn't really change this property and 2. there's no DOH support in 
any system name resolver functions yet so there's no way to do DOH other than 
"yourself" at this point.

DOH is just a protocol to deliver DNS data. It can be used in several ways.

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  / daniel.haxx.se