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by rollcat 1338 days ago
> But as a result the browser has to support Apple DNS protocol which can potentially increase attack surface.

The "Apple" DNS protocol is standard DNS, over a multicast IP address, on port 5353. You can literally use plain old dig to perform mDNS lookups:

    $ dig @224.0.0.251 -p 5353 +short hello.local

    192.168.123.45
If DNS lookups considerably increase your attack surface, something is very, very wrong with your architecture.
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> literally

The DNS names WebRTC generates for this purpose are random, and known only to the signaling participants.

I remember old BIND versions