[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#867268: Bug#867268: dirmngr: Can't set nameserver port

[Sandro Knauß]

Hey,
 
> FWIW, --use-tor forces the use of Tor for DNS lookups.  This does not
> use the limited Tor features for DNS but by default uses the DNS server
> 8.8.8.8.  If you want to use another DNS server you can set it with
> --namesever.  Make sure to use a high traffic public server and not some
> private or low-traffic server.

 that means, that google (the owner of 8.8.8.8) gets a log of all my gnupg 
activity by default, that's not very privacy oriented. But I see the problem, 
of a nameverser that is a good default for everyone. And I can overwrite the 
default nameserver...

On the other side I'm still puzzeld, how dirmngr can use of Tor for DNS 
lookups, if the Tor features for DNS are too limited? As DNS is UDP so that it 
can't routed through tor.

Best Regards,

sandro
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