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   kuato to Nuno Silva   
   Re: Choose DNS option?   
   26 Dec 25 23:49:16   
   
   From: invalide@invalid.invalid   
      
   Nuno Silva wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-19, 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...   
   >   
   > What I recall seeing in other browsers are options to enable DNS   
   > tunneling over HTTPS, not merely options to configure DNS.   
   >   
   > If it's your system, you should be able to change the system-wide DNS   
   > settings, to either a known public server or to your ISP.   
      
   Firefox, Chrome, and some chrome engined browsers (like   
   Brave or Epic) allow choosing your default DNS resolver.   
   Was wondering if SM had that.   
      
   > (Do note that DNS should only affect the *name resolution* time. If it's   
   > loading slower but is *not* resolving slower, I think it might be   
   > something other than DNS?   
      
   OS default is/was CloudFlare. Been reading about they've   
   been kinda persnickety and I got tired of waiting for   
   archive.* to load, tried OpenDNS and it came up right   
   away. Hmmm. Anyways, would still like to know if SM has   
   this option.   
      
   > (I can imagine some conditions could make this *be* DNS, but that'd   
   > involve either consistently omitting part of the records so that one   
   > nameserver always leads you to a slower-responding host when there are   
   > multiple, or a DNS-powered MITM attack pointing you to a different host?   
   >   
   > But someone with more DNS expertise will probably be able to clarify   
   > this one a bit further.))   
   >   
      
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