Since last Update (I guess) Firefox activates DoH without user permission.
When I revert this in the settings and restart the computer, it gets activated again!
Is this a bug or is this normal?
I have my own DNS Server with pihole, I don’t wanna use the DoH Servers from Firefox
PC 1 → EndeavourOS → Settings changed by Firefox
Notebook → EndeavourOS → Settings changed by Firefox
PC 2 → Linux Mint 21.2 → Settings changed by Firefox
So Firefox changed the Settings with one of its updates
EDIT:
Tomorrow at work I gonna check the firefox settings in my office to compare the behavior.
Also I have an Thinkpad T410 with an older EndeavourOS Install.
I gonna screenshot the settings and update firefox and check if it got also changed.
Check to run pacman to see if any domain name/URL of pacman repo shows up in Pihole’s query log?
If it doesn’t show up in pihole, then not only is there the Firefox issue, probably some installed tool has DoH capability on root to encrypt all domain queries on your 3 devices.
DoH was also activated there, with a Firefox Update
Telemetry is still deactivated.
I changed the DoH Settings to deactivated and did a reboot. The setting didn’t change again.
I’m gonna do the Test with pacman when I’m Back from work.
The bad thing in generall is, that the Firefox devs changed the DoH setting without any information in the Firefox to the user
A dialog or warning window would have been nice!
Ok, but why did I Not got informed in Firefox itself about this?
Nobody (normal User) reads this Page.
EDIT:
I didn’t got the notification (shown in the Link) on any machine!
because you don’t use the information channel that they have:
it was also in the changelog of the browser back when they implemented DoH, apparently you don’t read those either.
No Browser notifies its user about default settings changing, all expect you to read the changelog to see that. And yes, a lot of default settings are changed with updates on all browsers.
that is actually a bug on your system. Most likely you changed file or folder permissions or something like that or have another thing running that influences that. My Firefox at work (CentOS 7) does not revert DoH settings, neither does my browser at home (EndeavourOS)
It looks like there is a DNS tool installed somewhere on your devices, it (encrypts all domain requests of pacman repos and ) sends them to other DNS servers. This is why Pihole cannot see them.
EDIT:
I’m so stupid!
I have a bind9 server on my homelab running in front of pihole, to extract my local zone.
It has caching and there are the querys from pacman.
It goes like this:
DNS request → bind9 → pihole → unbound → internet