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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

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

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

The post was noticed [ycombinator.com] because Paul Vixie is an Internet Hall of Fame engineer [internethalloffame.org] 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.

Related: Paul Vixie: New TLDs a Money Grab, and a Mistake [soylentnews.org]
VLC 3.0.0 Released, With Better Hardware Decoding and Support for HDR, 360-Degree Video, Chromecast [soylentnews.org]
Paul Vixie on the Benefits of Running DNS Services Locally [soylentnews.org]

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