I have a question: what exactly is being blocked here, and can someone explain it to me in simple terms? I’m a bit confused because I noticed Cloudflare and Google on these lists. I had some issues with my Microsoft account before, and only after I disabled this setting in the DNS firewall did ever…

[image] Andreas Winkler: what this DNS-over-HTTPS DNS is in clear text for the world to see. this is over port 53 DNS over TLS is encrypted DNS over port 853 DNS over HTTPS is DNS that is pretending to be encrypted web traffic to Circumvent ease droppers and filtering by hidding with web tr…

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bloater99 (Tim Zakharov) 6 May 2026 15:00 2

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Yes, Bernhard is right, they are somewhat two different things. Redirecting DNS is good practise so that you will always receive and therefore be able to filter to any DNS queries. Any clients that are using DoT or DoH directly will circumvent this as those protocols are designed for that. So what I would do on my network is to enable the DoH category but only for GREEN (and BLUE if you are using that). That way, you can still use DoT to connect to your upstream providers, but your clients can…

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