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

'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, @05:11PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:11PM (#802540)

    Google is turning evil, right before our eyes.

    Why would they hardcode their DNS server address? So that they can yet further monitor your activities in order to target you with advertising.

    They have sold out to the advertisers, and once that happens there is no going back.

  • (Score: 2) by Whoever on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:45PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday February 17 2019, @05:45PM (#802552) Journal

    Why would they hardcode their DNS server address?

    Because ISPs are even more evil and Google is attempting to bypass some of the ISPs' evil.

  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday February 17 2019, @06:08PM

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Sunday February 17 2019, @06:08PM (#802564)

    Dude, Google has turned evil the day they realized there's money to be made by exploiting people's personal data - that is, from day one. Their "dont do evil" motto was just sarcasm. They removed it when it was starting to be a little too obvious.

  • (Score: 2) by ilsa on Monday February 18 2019, @02:06PM

    by ilsa (6082) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 18 2019, @02:06PM (#802945)

    What do you mean "is turning"? This happened a long time ago.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 18 2019, @08:01PM (#803141)

    a windows user, no doubt...