Yet another Quadruple DNS?

Thu Mar 29 11:46:30 UTC 2018

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:33:08AM -0400,
 Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote 
 a message of 7 lines which said:

> We already have 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

And 9.9.9.9 and several others public DNS resolvers.

> And any reputable company or ISP should be running their own.

I fully agree.

> What purpose would this serve?

In Europe, the most common technique of censorship is through lying
DNS resolvers. So, in order to go to forbidden Web sites (music and
film sharing, for instance), many users switched from the ISP's
resolver (which implements the censorship) to a public resolver. See
my talk at NANOG
<https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Bortzmeyer_Dns-Based_Censorship.pdf>