On Sa, 07.11.20 15:33, Marius Schwarz (fedoradev(a)cloud-foo.de) wrote:
Am 05.11.20 um 12:39 schrieb Petr Menšík:
> There is no controversy with nscd, it just caches names and nothing
> more. I think this is its advantage. Unless there is any stronger
> reason, I am against this change in advance.
>
It not only caches names, it also RANDOMIZES the requests to the dns servers
configured, increasing the privacy of ones internet journey.
What do you mean by that? That it distributes DNS lookups between multiple,
randomly selected servers?
So if you configure 4 DNS servers then each will still get roughly
1/4th of your requests? That's still quite a lot of info.
I mean, if it would distribute it to >1000 different DNS servers this might be
interesting, but it doesn't really sound like it gives you much of
privacy benefit IRL...
Lennart
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Lennart Poettering, Berlin