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Title    Paul Vixie Complains about Chromecast's Use of Google DNS
Date    Sunday February 17 2019, @09:12AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the pegging-the-bogosity-meter dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/02/17/0337216

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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Original Submission

Links
  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "'Google, this is bogus as hell' — one of the fathers of the internet blasts Google for how Chromecast behaves on his home network" - https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-vixie-blasts-google-chromecast-2019-2
  3. "ranted on Internet Engineering Task Force mail list" - https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dnsop/WCVv57IizUSjNb2RQNP84fBclI0
  4. "was noticed" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19170671
  5. "an Internet Hall of Fame engineer" - https://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/paul-vixie
  6. "Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/10/26/1454206
  7. "VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/02/10/1644248
  8. "Paul Vixie on the Benefits of Running DNS Services Locally" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/10/28/114220
  9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=31827
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