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Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service

posted by chromas on Monday April 02 2018, @10:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the send-us-all-your-privates dept.

takyon writes:

On April Fool's Day and Easter Sunday, Cloudflare launched a new "privacy-oriented" domain name system (DNS) service with two IP addresses: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. These addresses were offered by the Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) in exchange for allowing APNIC to study the "garbage traffic" often sent to them. The service supports both DNS-over-TLS and DNS-over-HTTPS, and DNSPerf currently ranks 1.1.1.1 as the fastest consumer DNS resolver:

Cloudflare is launching its own consumer DNS service today, on April Fools' Day, that promises to speed up your internet connection and help keep it private. The service is using https://1.1.1.1, and it's not a joke but an actual DNS resolver that anyone can use. Cloudflare claims it will be "the Internet's fastest, privacy-first consumer DNS service." While OpenDNS and Google DNS both exist, Cloudflare is focusing heavily on the privacy aspect of its own DNS service with a promise to wipe all logs of DNS queries within 24 hours.

DNS services are typically provided by internet service providers to resolve a domain name like Google.com into a real IP address that routers and switches understand. It's an essential part of the internet, but DNS servers provided by ISPs are often slow and unreliable. ISPs or any Wi-Fi network you connect to can also use DNS servers to identify all sites that are visited, which presents privacy problems. DNS also played an important role in helping Turkish citizens avoid a Twitter ban.

Also at VentureBeat and Engadget.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Monday April 02 2018, @11:14PM (5 children)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Monday April 02 2018, @11:14PM (#661714)

    Cloudflare is certainly not run by dickheads: it's run by sumbitches who are in the same business as Facebook and Google - the business of de-anonymizing you and raping your privacy any which way they can. They most certainly don't want you to be able to complete that captcha anonymously. That's totally on purpose.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @12:18AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @12:18AM (#661730)

    while OP did not.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @01:14AM (3 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @01:14AM (#661741)

      makes total sense to me, the upmod went to someone that was logged in, under their username.

      • (Score: 4, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Tuesday April 03 2018, @01:42AM (1 child)

        by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Tuesday April 03 2018, @01:42AM (#661752) Homepage Journal

        People use their real names on the Chinese Internet. They use their real names on the Facebook Internet. Let me tell you, it's terrific. It's tremendous for China. And it's tremendous for Facebook.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:04AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:04AM (#661848)

        makes total sense to me, the upmod went to someone that was logged in, under their username.

        Hey bro, can you get me a job at Cloudflare?