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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2023 12:05:48
Message-Id: 2e319255-2be3-6a22-e74e-d2fdf57e32d9@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn by Peter Humphrey
1 On 06/03/2023 11:08, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2 > On Monday, 6 March 2023 10:56:37 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
3 >> On 06/03/2023 10:06, Michael wrote:
4 >
5 >>> I suspect the behaviour you noticed is related to FF functionality like
6 >>> TRR
7 >>> (Trusted Recursive Resolver) farming all your DNS queries over to the
8 >>> cloudfarce honeypot.
9 >>>
10 >>> Have a look here if you want to disable it:
11 >>>
12 >>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Firefox/Privacy#Disable/
13 >>> enforce_'Trusted_Recursive_Resolver'
14 >>
15 >> Thanks. That led me to network.trr.allow-rfc1918, which provided your
16 >> name has a dot in it ! appears to resolve addresses from /etc/hosts. I
17 >> guess that actually means firefox uses your local resolver first, and if
18 >> it returns an rfc1918 address, will use it.
19 >>
20 >> Surely that should be the default! It shouldn't break a PRIVATE network
21 >> in the name of security !!!
22 >
23 > It is the default here, in www-client/firefox-110.0.1 .
24 >
25 I'm running amd not ~amd, and I've got FF 102esr. As soon as I changed
26 it to allow rfc1918, it started working ...
27
28 Cheers,
29 Wol

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Re: [gentoo-user] Setting a fixed nameserver for openvpn Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>