Internet prefs could allow non-number DNS addresses?

[Raziel]

Hi there,

right now internet prefs only allow number based addresses (and periods) for DNS servers

There are a whole lot servers out there that use hexadecimal or IPv6 for their addresses

Has internet prefs already been updated (in the beta world) to support those or could that be implemented, please?

e.g.
https://nextdns.io offers a free service of adblocking, security measures and much more, which can be used on router or machine level
it consists of hexadecimal or https:// addresses, something like 12abc3.dns.next.dns.io (dns over tls) or https://dns.nextdns.io/12abc3 (dns over https) but both won't work in internet prefs, because hexadecimal, https:// and IPv6 cannot be typed in

thank you very much

[nbache]

It would probably be useless as long as we don't have support for IPv6 in the TCP/IP stack.

Best regards,

Niels

[Raziel]

It works with IPv4 as well, i just mentioned it because it was an option, just like router level is an option too.

[nbache]

Oh, so are you after making it possible to enter URLs instead of IP numbers for the DNS servers? That wouldn't really work - if I understand you correctly - because the DNS server is needed in order to resolve the URLs into IP addresses.

Best regards,

Niels

[Raziel]

Yes, you are right, of course (as always, i might add)

I had a twist in my brain which didn't let me see the obvious way to achieve that.
You do get a DNS server address and it's numbers only...i was fooled by the DNS-over-TLS/QUIC and DNS-over-HTPPS protocols (which obviously are not, and will never be, supported in a vanilla OS installation)

Thank you for the hint

[nbache]

You're welcome - glad I got the right end of the stick eventually .

Best regards,

Niels