Re:Cloudflare Warp
by daqnal on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:04PM
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Can anyone explain how Cloudflare got the 1.1.1.1 domain? I know they are an influential company that controls a large portion of the internet, but I'm still confused. Is it an IP or a name that gets matched to an IP?
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It's an IP, just like 1.0.0.1 (1.1): https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
"APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network."
https://blog.cloudflare.com/dns-resolver-1-1-1-1/
https://labs.apnic.net/?p=1127
Interestingly, we are now 4 years into this 5 year experiment.
Re:Cloudflare Warp
by Handytinge on Saturday September 17, 2022 @08:35PM
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> Upon the expiration of the initial period, or at any time thereafter, APNIC shall consider a request by Cloudflare for a permanent allocation of these IPv4 addresses to Cloudflare. APNIC undertakes to refer any such request to the regional Address Policy Special Interest Group as a matter of a change to the current research use designation of these IPv4 addresses, and APNIC shall be bound to the outcomes of this policy group.
Looks like Cloudflare are about to make a sizable "donation" to APNIC.
Re:Cloudflare Warp
by birdyrooster on Saturday September 10, 2022 @03:16PM
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So long as the ip or host name is in the TLS certificate CN or SAN, it doesn’t matter.