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Re:Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on Its IP... by junon on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:48AM (#35301722)
> There's no content crossing Cloudflare servers for DNS resolutions but there definitely is for IPFS.

Unless I'm missing some magical internet tomfoolery, that's not the case when you use their DNS proxy service, right?

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Re:Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on Its IP... by zauguin on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:58AM (#35301773)
As far as I understand it Cloudflare's DNS proxy service is for it's authoritative DNS service (and therefore only transfers content of Cloudflare customers), while the parent referred to the DNS resolver (1.1.1.1) where arbitrary sites are looked up.
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Re:Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on Its IP... by Caligatio on Saturday March 25, 2023 @08:19AM (#35301920)
I think what you call "DNS proxy service" is what I'm referring to as their CDN. As referenced by a sibling comment, I meant their public recursive DNS resolver service when I said "DNS resolutions."
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Re:Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on Its IP... by junon on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:13AM (#35303439)
No, I'm not. I'm talking about the ability to completely hide your IP address from both DNS and network traffic.
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Re:Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on Its IP... by Caligatio on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:21PM (#35304161)
Ahh, you mean Cloudflare Tunnel then?

That's their CDN with a twist.

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Re:Cloudflare Disables Access to ‘Pirated’ Content on Its IP... by thayne on Saturday March 25, 2023 @07:46PM (#35308820)
They probably mean the copyrighted material isn't crossing their servers. Unless you are somehow encoding it in DNS records...

For DNS specifically, it is analogous to saying a phone book shouldn't be liable for listing the phone number of someone who sells pirated DVDs.

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