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Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS

posted by martyb on Sunday February 17 2019, @09:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the pegging-the-bogosity-meter dept.

takyon writes:

'Google, this is bogus as hell' — one of the fathers of the internet blasts Google for how Chromecast behaves on his home network

"Google, this is bogus as hell," Paul Vixie ranted on Internet Engineering Task Force mail list this week. The IETF mail list is where the people who create the internet's technologies converse.

The post was noticed because Paul Vixie is an Internet Hall of Fame engineer known for his pioneering work on the modern Domain Name Service (DNS).

And it is how Google was using DNS in its Chromecast Ultra streaming device that ticked him off.

[...] [Vixie] bought a Google Chromecast. But when he went to set it up, he found it doing something no device in his network is allowed to do: It wouldn't use his own, private DNS server. It would only use Google's public server.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:03PM (#802539)

    Even if the bandwidth is available, and the compressed text files aren't obscenely large, I'd point out that zone transfers to untrusted hosts have (hopefully) been totally disabled globally by now.

    It was quite a common thing to go fishing through a domain's dns files looking for 'interesting' looking names to go play with...I know that's how a miscreant found one of our Sun servers back in the early '90s (we had no control over network, there were no firewalls..As TPTB wouldn't implement one, I cobbled together the hardware at my own expense to get a copy of Texas A&M's Drawbridge up and running to protect my machines..)

    Seems like only yesterday when you could dump the dns records for .mil sites, the whole of the .uk, etc. etc. (fsck me, where have the years gone?)