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A comment on DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8.8.8 x Quad9 x OpenDNS. Parent comment

Re:DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8... by josteink on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:20AM (#16734670)
> With a single resolver, I can verify that they're trustworthy enough [for me], just once, and direct all my traffic to it.

Apply this deceptively simple principle to every need you have on our wonderfully decentralized Internet and see where that gets us.

Oh snap. Not so decentralized anymore.

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Re:DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8... by jeremejevs on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:16PM (#16736650)
I'm talking about DNS and nothing else.

Okay, say, 1 year from now, somehow, 95% of internet users are sending their DNS queries to Cloudflare. What can go wrong? Malicious or not. Not rhetorical, actually curious.

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Re:DNS Performance compared: CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 x Google 8.8... by josteink on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @12:54PM (#16746609)
Internet-wide censorship is now 1 US court order way. Compared to ... say 200,000 court orders away.

Centralizing things, makes it easy for law-makers to enforce bad policy which technology otherwise would have side-stepped.

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