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DoH ignores my hosts file

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owc
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Hi,

When I enable DoH, my hosts file is not respected. Is this a feature of DoH, or a bug?

Hi, When I enable DoH, my hosts file is not respected. Is this a feature of DoH, or a bug?

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Paul
Paul
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Hi

Just to clarify, is this with Firefox for Android or are you using a desktop copy of Firefox?

owc
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Desktop. The behavior seems the same on Windows, OSX and Ubuntu

owc
owc Question owner
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I’m keen to test solutions on latest Ubuntu 18 or Win10....

cor-el
cor-el
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See:

  • Bug 1453207 - Enabling DNS over HTTPS should respect system hosts file [WONTFIX]
  • Bug 1511643 - DoH enabled ignores local dns overrides

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