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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.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bradley13 on Tuesday April 03 2018, @05:49AM (2 children)
I missed the earlier article about Quad9, so I just read up on it. I find two things worrisome:
- It was started by police forces (New York and London). Especially London worries me, given the UK's stance that neither privacy nor freedom of information should exist. I don't trust them to run a DNS filter that doesn't include outright censorship.
- It was initially funded by asset forfeiture money from New York. I.e. money stolen from taxpayers without due process.
Neither of those facts endear the service to me. I want someone like the EFF to run a DNS resolver. Better would be an organization outside the US and UK.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 03 2018, @07:40PM (1 child)
> Better would be an organization outside the US and UK.
So... China, Russia, or Saudi Arabia?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday April 03 2018, @08:50PM
Nigeria of course.
They're really good at finding stuff, though you only get 10% of it.