Yet another Quadruple DNS?

Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzmeyer at nic.fr
Thu Mar 29 14:24:41 UTC 2018


On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:01:59AM -0700,
 Brian Kantor <Brian at ampr.org> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> I believe that centralized DNS resolvers such as 8.8.8.8 are of
> benefit to those folks who can't run their own recursive resolver
> because of OS, hardware,

Hardware is not a real problem. A Raspberry Pi is more than enough to
run a resolver for a typical home.

> or skill limitations,

That's certainly a more important issue. Even when someone has skills,
he or she may not have the time and inclination to do system
administration at home. The solution is proper packaging of this
DNS function in ready-made boxes such as the Turris Omnia
<https://omnia.turris.cz/>

> and yet do not trust the ones provided by their ISPs.

Unfortunately, the users are often right here :-(




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