Comments on: Please stop using DNS already, and other considerations

By: Fixpoint Security Advisory: FreeFileSync misses host key check, allowing breach of data confidentiality or authenticity « Fixpoint

Fri, 17 Jun 2022 22:00:31 +0000

[...] is no presently known fix. A partial mitigation would be to stop using DNS. A complete but clumsy workaround, if allowed by server configuration, would be to direct traffic [...]

By: A Gentoo install on JWRD desktop « Dorion Mode

A Gentoo install on JWRD desktop « Dorion Mode — Thu, 24 Dec 2020 18:14:18 +0000

[...] for, portage will try some additional mirrors whose URLs it resolves with DNS. If you don't need DNS and can manage purely on a /etc/hosts basis, more power to you. cp /etc/resolv.conf [...]

By: Some shower thoughts on networks and referencing « Fixpoint

Some shower thoughts on networks and referencing « Fixpoint — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 21:50:50 +0000

[...] "DNS problems"; yet it's insufficiently abstract to be useful to people as a long-term identifier. Domain Naming System: the protocol, software, and authority structure rooted at the US government that computers on the [...]

By: Utopia « The Tar Pit

Utopia « The Tar Pit — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 06:48:03 +0000

[...] perhaps unknowningly to its authors, Utopia was created in order to inform you of how your reality relates to you. Too bad it was canceled -- to [...]

By: Shattered thoughts and disparate notions on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu.

Shattered thoughts and disparate notions on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:22:28 +0000

[...] Ima gonna have to fish that thing out of the archive, what can I do. In the interim there's also this fragment. [↩]I'm too lazy to dig out where exactly on Trilema one finds plainly discussed this lulzy [...]