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I'm not looking forward to this.

I use internal DNS for stuff I'm running at home (e.g., a NAS, Home Assistant, etc). I don't want to go back to the bad old days of having to remember what IP addresses go with what service.

My girlfriend is not going to like it when Pi-Hole magically stops working because Firefox doesn't respect the DNS settings that are served by DHCP.

My employer uses internal DNS for internal services. The helpdesk is going to have a fun time as Firefoxes across the organization get updated. It also doesn't help that a large number of users are BYOD users, so enforcing certain Firefox settings is a no-go.

Sure, there's instructions to fix it, but it should never be broken like this in the first place.

EDIT:

The article has been updated - it now shows a screenshot from Mozilla's blog[0] which says:

> We’ll use the default resolver, as we do now, but we’ll also send the request to Cloudflare’s DoH resolver. Then we’ll compare the two to make sure that everything is working as we expect.

Cloudflare is going to have a huge list of internal stuff used by Firefox Nightly users, and Mozilla is going to have huge insights into how many people use things like Pi-Hole, internal DNS servers, split DNS servers (e.g., BIND Views), etc. And they're going to be analyzing this data in order to determine how well DNS-over-HTTPS works.

I'm not sure if this is better or worse than I initially thought it was.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-ove...




> Cloudflare is going to have a huge list of internal stuff used by Firefox Nightly users

By Firefox Nightly users who agree to be in the study, yes?




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