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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.))       >              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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