Re:1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
by eis on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:30PM
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My last point was that DNS is supposed to be decentralized. With a properly decentralized system, censorship becomes very difficult. We shouldn't rely on someone like Cloudflare or Google to provide us with DNS services.
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Re:1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
by ocdtrekkie on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:34PM
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It's a decentralized service, but at the end of the day, your PC's going to check one address. If it's not Cloudflare/Google/Quad9/etc., you're just going to be checking against your ISP. It's pretty beneficial, especially in certain countries, to have alternatives to the ISP's DNS.
Re:1.1.1.1 Cloudflare DNS Resolver Soon to Be Announced?
by scrollaway on Friday March 30, 2018 @12:37PM
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So what's your thinking here? Cloudflare shouldn't offer to be one of the many pillars of that properly decentralized system?
I don't believe we are going to suddenly flock to cloudflare to provide all dns ever. Between ISPs hardcoding or force-defaulting their own (awful) dns servers, and the amount of geeks and IT techs who have memorized 8.8.8.8, we're safe for a long time. And if I'm wrong on that, that wouldn't speak highly of the "decentralized" nature of DNS, would it?