Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 public DNS broken w/ AT&T CPE

Matt Hoppes mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net
Mon Apr 2 15:05:30 UTC 2018


Seeing as how 1.1.1.1 isn’t suppose to be routed I’m not surprised this is causing odd issues. 

> On Apr 2, 2018, at 11:03, Darin Steffl <darin.steffl at mnwifi.com> wrote:
> 
> I am behind a Calix router at home for my ISP and 1.1.1.1 goes to my router
> and not any further. When I enter the IP into my browser, it opens the
> login page for my router. So it appears 1.1.1.1 is used as a loopback in my
> Calix router.
> 
> 1.0.0.1 goes to the proper place fine.
> 
> On Sun, Apr 1, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Jeremy L. Gaddis <lists-nanog at gadd.is>
> wrote:
> 
>> Greetings,
>> 
>> If anyone at 7018 wants to pass a message along to the correct folks,
>> please let them know that Cloudflare's new public DNS service (1.1.1.1)
>> is completely unusable for at least some of AT&T's customers.
>> 
>> There is apparently a bug with some CPE (including the 5268AC). From
>> behind such CPE, the services at 1.1.1.1 are completely unreachable,
>> whether via (ICMP) ping, DNS, or HTTPS.
>> 
>> Using the 5268AC's web-based diagnostic tools, pinging 1.1.1.1 returns
>> the following results:
>> 
>>  ping successful: icmp seq:0, time=2.364 ms
>>  ping successful: icmp seq:1, time=1.085 ms
>>  ping successful: icmp seq:2, time=1.160 ms
>>  ping successful: icmp seq:3, time=1.245 ms
>>  ping successful: icmp seq:4, time=0.739 ms
>> 
>> RTTs to the CPE's default gateway are, at minimum, ~20 ms.
>> 
>> A traceroute (using the same web-based diagnostic tool built-in to the
>> CPE) reports, simply:
>> 
>>  traceroute 1.1.1.1 with: 64 bytes of data
>> 
>>  1: 1.1.1.1(1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com), time=0 ms
>> 
>> I haven't bothered to report this to AT&T through the standard customer
>> support channels (for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has
>> ever called AT&T's consumer/residential technical support) but if anyone
>> at AT&T wants to pass the info along to the appropriate group, it would
>> certainly be appreciated.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -Jeremy
>> 
>> --
>> Jeremy L. Gaddis
>> 
>> 
>> "The total budget at all receivers for solving senders' problems is
>> $0. If you want them to accept your mail and manage it the way you
>> want, send it the way the spec says to."  --John Levine
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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> Darin Steffl
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