Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 public DNS broken w/ AT&T CPE

Mon Apr 2 15:12:01 UTC 2018

1.0.0.0/8 was assigned to APNIC in 2010.  Those who used it as a placeholder were doing it wrong.  It is valid IP space. It just was not assigned until 2010.

Justin Wilson
j2sw at mtin.net

www.mtin.net
www.midwest-ix.com

> On Apr 2, 2018, at 11:05 AM, Matt Hoppes <mattlists at rivervalleyinternet.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Darin Steffl
>> Minnesota WiFi
>> www.mnwifi.com
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