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LoganDark • today at 12:58 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This does work for unencrypted DNS and DoT over port 853, but it fails for DoT over any other port and DoH, which looks just like a website visit. You can't tell whether a website is acting as a DoH server without TLS inspection, and you can't differentiate between multiple domains on the same IP address either (unless a client is stupid enough to use SNI). Some clients do actually hardcode direct IP addresses to get around entirely missing DNS servers, notably Windows.


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ProllyInfamous • today at 1:07 PM

>notably Windows

At least they're honest, using host <spynet2.microsoft.com> to replicate Apple's <smoot.> & <security.> subdomains.

>This does work for unencrypted DNS and DoT over port 853, but it fails for DoT over any other port and DoH

My task for today is to learn more about this (I'm only doing the unencryptedDNS part) and then implement an entire subnet that is whitelist-only (for all DNS). I think what you wrote will help solve this better, thanks.

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