Unbound VS user.js

dnsmasq and unbound are impacted to

https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/releases/tag/release-1....

https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20...

As are any other DNSSEC validators that followed the specifications.

Bind9 has its problems but this is not its fault this time.

Are you familiar with https://pi-hole.net/ ?

In my house I want DNS resolution to be performed by my own DNS resolver (https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound), after I block ad domains.

DoH circumvents that.

So yep it's an unbound thing: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/438 there was a PR to allow a user to change the depth of a chase. I doubt F5 would have that version of unbound in any current software but support may be able to check or look at a lab 17.1 to see what version it is--you could then manually edit the conf file but it wouldn't persist through upgrades..

That's confirms in issue#362 I found.

The last time I checked, Unbound does not support upstream DoH. You can configure it to reply to DoH requests from clients, but you can't use it to forward queries to another DoH provider like Cloudflare or Quad9. Has that changed? The pull request has been open for 3 years.

And, while the documentation for unbound.conf doesn’t say a whole lot about the iterator module specifically as far as I can tell, the code says:

Gravity-Sync won't do that. But searching around on GH, I found this : https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/blob/master/contrib/unbound_cache.sh

Version 1.15.0 Configure line: --with-libexpat=/usr/local --with-ssl=/usr --disable-dnscrypt --disable-dnstap --with-libnghttp2 --enable-ecdsa --disable-event-api --enable-gost --with-libevent --with-pythonmodule=yes --with-pyunbound=yes ac_cv_path_SWIG=/usr/local/bin/swig LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --disable-subnet --disable-tfo-client --disable-tfo-server --with-pthreads --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd12.3 Linked libs: libevent 2.1.12-stable (it uses kqueue), OpenSSL 1.1.1n-freebsd 15 Mar 2022 Linked modules: dns64 python respip validator iterator BSD licensed, see LICENSE in source package for details. Report bugs to [email protected] or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues

"Unbound" for example https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound

Re: firefox and privacy, if you want to use firefox for privacy, consider using https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js . There is a case to be made that Firefox (with arkenfox's user.js) is one of the best privacy-respecting but still fairly usable browsers.

For extensions, I recommend people follow the recommendations[1] in the arkenfox repo and either harden their firefox or use librewolf. Umatrix is unmaintained since 2019.

[1] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions

For macOS : Thunderbird and you can harden it even more with this : https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

only arkenfox

This article is shit. https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ is what you want.

If you make time to dig through settings and change them away from their official use (99% of users don't), then you should use a customized setup (in this case, a user.js). That way, you're good to go no matter what Firefox fork you use.

> Firefox remains a stable option to come back to everytime

Don't get me wrong, I've been using Firefox for the last decade and I don't intend on using anything else for the foreseeable future, but Mozilla has no idea what they're doing with Firefox nowadays. Firefox View is the most useless thing I've ever seen, that expiring "independent voices" theme picker was some weird hippie stunt[1], the latest UI redesign which split the tab from the window looks hideous, and it's not like Firefox doesn't have things you can tweak for a more private experience[2]. I miss Firefox Test Pilot where they tried out different new features, I found a lot of them to be very useful but sadly lots of them didn't make it.

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/in...

[2] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/

Like others have said you can customize the browser to the point that it doesn't even look like the default anymore. Or customize it to maximize privacy.