Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Feb 26, 2021 6:39 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167)
In reply to: Fedora and fallback DNS servers by gdt
Parent article: Fedora and fallback DNS servers

> The user has a contract with their home ISP

Nope. The user is just a user. Perhaps somebody in their home has such a contract, and perhaps it's with a "home ISP", and perhaps that home ISP operates a DNS server upstream which somebody in those actually actually chose to use, but likely not. In either case I can't see why you'd imagine this somehow creates a relationship between a user and an ISP regulated by law when the two don't even have or want a relationship.

I don't for one moment buy the theory that somehow the GDPR means the user needs to explicitly configure a protocol they've never heard of because of some tortured logic about IP addresses as identifiers. If your concern is that operators of big public DNS servers like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 might invade your privacy I have great news - unlike most ISPs they've actually got good reasons not to and policies saying they won't.

Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Feb 27, 2021 8:22 UTC (Sat) by gdt (subscriber, #6284) [Link]

In either case I can't see why you'd imagine this somehow creates a relationship between a user and an ISP regulated by law

Well I can't speak to the USA, but in Australia that's precisely what the Telecommunications Act exists to do. The ISP is a "carriage service provider" or a "telecommunications provider" and thus has a black-letter list of the occasions when the content of the user's telecommunications can be disclosed, with other disclosures being criminal.

If your concern is that operators of big public DNS servers like 8.8.8.8 and 1.1.1.1 might invade your privacy I have great news - unlike most ISPs they've actually got good reasons not to and policies saying they won't.

Whereas ISPs are controlled by telecommunications legislation rather than by self-interest. My point is that invisible failover between these two very different privacy scenarios is not desirable.