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by richardjennings 3162 days ago
SNI will show the hostname of the "DNS over TLS" server the TLS connection is made with but not the DNS queries made.
3 comments

DNS isn't very useful unless you're actually planning to visit the IPs you just looked up. And as soon as you do that, you'll send the domain name in plaintext via SNI.
It will also show the hostname of the server I access after doing the DNS lookup.
I don't think so.

The purpose of SNI is to pass the domain name to the final destination server, so it can serve up the correct SSL cert where there are multiple domains hosted on the same IP