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On 06/03/2023 10:06, Michael wrote: |
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> On Monday, 6 March 2023 08:24:35 GMT Wols Lists wrote: |
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>> On 06/03/2023 08:08, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>>> On Mon, 6 Mar 2023 07:54:51 +0000, Wols Lists wrote: |
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>>>> There's another file - can't remember its name - that tells your |
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>>>> resolver what to try in what order - the hosts file, dns, what dhcp |
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>>>> told you, etc etc, so your resolver might not be using dns the way you |
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>>>> think. |
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>>> Do you mean /etc/nsswitch.conf? |
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>> Ah yes. Any idea why Firefox seems to ignore it? Whenever I try to |
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>> browse to local machines in /etc/hosts, firefox gives me a google search |
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>> page which is a bloody nuisance. If I type a VALID ADDRESS in the |
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>> ADDRESS BAR, that's where I expect to go! Not some damn random search page! |
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>> Cheers, |
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>> Wol |
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> I suspect the behaviour you noticed is related to FF functionality like TRR |
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> (Trusted Recursive Resolver) farming all your DNS queries over to the |
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> cloudfarce honeypot. |
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> Have a look here if you want to disable it: |
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> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy#Disable/ |
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> enforce_'Trusted_Recursive_Resolver' |
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Thanks. That led me to network.trr.allow-rfc1918, which provided your |
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name has a dot in it ! appears to resolve addresses from /etc/hosts. I |
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guess that actually means firefox uses your local resolver first, and if |
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it returns an rfc1918 address, will use it. |
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Surely that should be the default! It shouldn't break a PRIVATE network |
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in the name of security !!! |
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Cheers, |
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Wol |
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