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   Schugo to Schugo   
   Re: Choose DNS option?   
   22 Dec 25 13:58:57   
   
   From: schugo@schugo.de   
      
   On 19.12.2025 19:29, Schugo wrote:   
   > On 19.12.2025 19:10, kuato wrote:   
   >> Does SM have that? I noted that Firefox, Brave, and Chrome do   
   >> (bascially many that use the CHrome engine). For example,   
   >> I made use of this because Cloudflare seemed to be loading   
   >> archive.* slowly, set it to OpenDNS and it loaded much   
   >> faster. (haven't retried that in a while, tho)   
   >>   
   >> Anyway, didn't seem to find a similar option in SM after   
   >> poking around...   
   >   
   >   
   > Current SM is about FF v60ies ca. 2018.   
   >   
   > DNS over HTTPS in FF was rolled out later, ca. 2019.   
   >   
   > I don't believe DoH is "much faster" than the   
   > OS's UDP DNS query.   
      
   heh.. I should have said:   
      
   BULLSHIT! unencrypted UPD to your ISP is the fastest connection you can get.   
      
   TCP has 3 Way handshake + TLS negotioation + encryption overhead.   
      
   I you are on the other side of the planet than the DoH server it adds   
   extra time (Speed of Light limit! + delay on every routing hop)   
      
   It makes probably sense on public unencrypted WiFi..   
   but I don't use such shit.   
      
   ciao..   
      
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