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iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'

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Re: iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'

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Post by JosephRedfern »

sametmax wrote: post #14
0culus wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think it's worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But this should at a minimum be an opt-in feature, and not opt-out. Better yet, it's probably not needed. I've almost never needed to interact with URLs in a clickable way via a terminal.

I do but I always know if they are valid before I click on them, so I don't see the appeal of the DNS lookup. Plus that must be freaking slow.

Not necessarily slow, DNS Lookups are generally pretty fast:

    ~  dig somerandomurlimadeup.com | grep 'Query time: '
    ;; Query time: 23 msec

Re: iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'

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Post by joosters »

0culus wrote: post #10
problems wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just ditch it - clearly the author has no regard for privacy. I cringe just thinking about implementing something like that.

I don't think it's worth throwing the baby out with the bathwater. But this should at a minimum be an opt-in feature, and not opt-out. Better yet, it's probably not needed. I've almost never needed to interact with URLs in a clickable way via a terminal.

Clickable URLs are very convenient. I have plenty of code that runs on remote machines and generates data that I'd like to view in my browser. Print the URL out, and I can click on it to open it up.

n.b. for me, in iTerm2, I have to press cmd to make the links highlight before I can click on them - so there's little danger of accidentally opening something you didn't want to.

Doing any DNS before clicking on the links seems like overkill, though. My browser can tell me if the URL is garbage or not.

Re: iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'

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Post by tlb »

It's horrifying to watch your own DNS traffic. All sorts of mysterious domains show up. (On a typical macbook on WiFi, this will do it:)

   sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s 5000 -n port 53
On mine, these get resolved every 30 seconds (probably some Adobe updater):

  scss-prod-ue1-notif-39.adobesc.com.
Several servers get lookups of names long enough to be exfiltrating data:

  r3---sn-nvopjoxu-25ve.gvt1.com.  (Google)
  gzunified-ecselast-1isehuisml2g4-663788831.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com. (???)
  kube-nimbus-471965604.us-west-2.elb.amazonaws.com. (BitDefender)
If you hit a popular commercial site without AdBlock enabled, the list is loooong and sketchy-looking.

Re: iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'

#25

Post by whoisjohnkid »

chadlavi wrote: post #4
JadeNB wrote: post #3

Since I didn't see it on a quick skim, it seems that the way to do this is Preferences > Advanced > Semantic history.

Or if you're lazy like me, Preferences > Advanced > type "DNS" (the search field gets autofocus on the Advanced prefs pane).

lol this is exactly what I did. Worked like a charm.

Re: iTerm2: Please disable 'Perform DNS lookups to check if URLs are valid'

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Post by pishpash »

What's more interesting to me is that some people are okay with a lookup on click but not a lookup on hover. It seems a difference in affirmative intent exists between hover and click; and more generally perhaps categories of user actions should be formalized into degrees of affirmation that could mitigate errors like this.
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