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DNSB looks at the resolvers in the list and enables those buttons when it finds working resolvers for each of those protocols. If your current resolver list does not have any DoT resolvers, or if your Linux/WINE doesn't support the required TCP/TLS protocol, then DNSB won't enable that button because it will not be able to benchmark any of the DoT resolvers that are in your resolver list.
It may be the latter Mr G, I need to investigate. I manually tried to add my NextDNS DoT address into the list and it was accepted, but was instantly RED and the run bunchmark button becomes greyed out.
I have two in the list in this example, 1.1.1.1 and my nextdns (cropped for privacy) and I can't press run.
It seems odd that the latest Ubuntu wouldn't support all the new TCP/TLS stuff, but I do not know one way or the other. I will try and find out and report back.
I have two in the list in this example, 1.1.1.1 and my nextdns (cropped for privacy) and I can't press run.
It seems odd that the latest Ubuntu wouldn't support all the new TCP/TLS stuff, but I do not know one way or the other. I will try and find out and report back.
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I suspect that it's not the latest Ubuntu that doesn't support all the new TCP/TLS stuff. I agree with you that it certainly does. It's likely the WINE emulation of the Windows API that has not yet caught up.
I'm been thinking that a very useful way for me to spend my eventual retirement — once I inevitably wind down my commercial software company — would be working on WINE. I know the Windows API as well as anyone, and I've been VERY impressed by the popularity of WINE. Working to make WINE better would seem like a good use of my time, as well as fun, interesting and challenging.
AFAIK the version of WINE that is supplied from the Ubuntu repositories is 8.0.1 unless you manually install 9 or 10.
I hope my posts aren't coming across as tech support questions. I realise that it's a tool for Windows, but it does sound like attention was put into running it on other OS and Mr G did even mention that on SN.
I just wanted to share what appeared to be minor bugs. I would have loved to have been on the testing team. I'm not a coder, just an acomplished tinkerer, also, I'm just one of those guys that seems to encounter weird edge cases in life with whatever I encounter.
I just wanted to share what appeared to be minor bugs. I would have loved to have been on the testing team. I'm not a coder, just an acomplished tinkerer, also, I'm just one of those guys that seems to encounter weird edge cases in life with whatever I encounter.
Yeah it is something like that. I love updating to the newest version of everything, except Windows 11 of course!
@GreenWine" "... I'm not a coder, just an accomplished tinkerer, also, I'm just one of those guys that seems to encounter weird edge cases in life with whatever I encounter ..."
Mee too.
Welcome!
Mee too.
Welcome!
100%! There is a substantial and significant population of people with Linux and Mac machines who are wishing to run this DNS Benchmark. So This has been very interesting — and important!
We HAVE now verified that modern code signing recognition requires WINE 9.0 at a minimum. I'm in the process of adding a detection of Wine version so that an explanatory dialog will be presented rather than that hostile error dialog.
If you wish to keep WINE 8 you can verify the forthcoming test tomorrow.
Once this all settles and I finish my move into new new digs I'll be starting in on the next project. (I'll be delaying the immediate start on the next project until my wife and I have moved.) You are certainly welcome to participate in the development testing of ValiDrive 2, which will be the next project.
You'll need to find an old school NNTP client for your machine. See this page for details: https://www.grc.com/discussions.htm
Your contributions will certainly be welcome.
Thanks all - with the help of Gemini I got into Ubuntu's inner workings and have verified that the NextDNS Cli tool which appears to capture all DNS queries from the system and gets everything to point to 127.0.0.1, then do it's magic. I could see in the conf file that DoT is enabled. So, it likely is Wine not quite up to speed.
So that one seems solved - but if anyone os getting the ability to benchmark DoT using Wine, please jump in.
So that one seems solved - but if anyone os getting the ability to benchmark DoT using Wine, please jump in.
I'll have the 3rd release of DNSBv2 ready shortly. It has added a test and notification for WINE 8 and earlier.
WINE's development is on a "first of the year" update cadence. So I'm hoping that next month, when WINE 11.0 appears, it might resolve WINE's missing TLS support. That would be great! (But I'm actually not super hopeful, since Windows' Channel API is an unbelievable catastrophe.)
Generally, the annual releases are mid-month (mid-January).I have set a calendar reminder to install Wine 11 and test the benchmark on new year's day
If you click the red icon in the UL corner of DNSB's main window, and get the main drop down menu, what do you see for the DOT protocol? Enabled or disabled? If it is not enabled then DNSB wile not benchmark DOT resolvers.