Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 public DNS broken w/ AT&T CPE

Mon Apr 2 20:16:15 UTC 2018

"how many end users know about or care about DNS, even after reading snake oil advertisements." 

None. Nobody cares. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

Midwest-IX 
http://www.midwest-ix.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "James R Cutler" <james.cutler at consultant.com> 
To: "North American Network Operators' Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 2, 2018 11:07:32 AM 
Subject: Re: Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 public DNS broken w/ AT&T CPE 

> On Apr 2, 2018, at 11:35 AM, Simon Lockhart <simon at slimey.org> wrote: 
> 
> … 
> This looks like a willy-waving exercise by Cloudflare coming up with the lowest 
> quad-digit IP. They must have known that this would cause routing issues, and 
> now suddenly it's our responsibility to make significant changes to live 
> infrastructures just so they can continue to look clever with the IP address. 
> 

I am very impressed at Cloudflare’s forward thinking to force investing a significant amount of IPv4 infrastructure. This will obviously become even more important in the future as IPv6 withers away and is replaced by IPv4. 

And, I repeat, please tell me how many end users know about or care about DNS, even after reading snake oil advertisements. 

James R. Cutler 
James.cutler at consultant.com 
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