Yet another Quadruple DNS?

Thu Mar 29 12:41:12 UTC 2018

Cloudflare’s website provides some more information: https://1.1.1.1/ <https://1.1.1.1/>

According to Cloudflare’s CEO, we’ll have more news on 1/4, so in a few days.
https://twitter.com/eastdakota/status/979257292938911744

From their website I can see that it is a low latency and privacy oriented service. Now whether it’s actually needed, I think there’s place for it in the market. Currently in Greece, 8.8.8.8 is ~65ms away. This is 11ms away. 

Antonis 

> On 29 Mar 2018, at 14:46, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr> wrote:
> 
> 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>