Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

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* Tomas Mraz:

> On Wed, 2020-04-15 at 10:02 -0500, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 1:38 pm, Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> 
>> wrote:
>> > Not sure if that's compatible with the new split DNS model because 
>> > VPN1
>> > could simply start pushing longer names in the scope of VPN2, thus
>> > hijacking internal traffic there (and this sort of hijacking is 
>> > exactly
>> > what a DNS sinkhole against typosquatting would need).
>> 
>> You deserve bonus points for thinking like an attacker and exploring 
>> the security model, but let's assume the configured VPNs are
>> trusted. 
>> Otherwise the user is screwed no matter what. ;)
>
> Trusted for what? I would expect corporate VPNs doing such tricks to
> monitor the user's internet traffic. Which does not mean the user is
> fully screwed with such VPN if he for example uses hardcoded
> configuration of a caching nameserver.

Yes, what I described was given as a motivation for this change.

I find the response puzzling.  I would definitely like to see greater
robustness to hostile networks, but it is a lot of work.  Really a lot.
Lots of code to review, and quite a few shell scripts as well.

Thanks,
Florian
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