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Posts Tagged ‘AllesIstKaput’

From the #AllesIstKaput department: DNS 1.1.1.1 is unusable for many; 9.9.9.9 has government affiliation

Posted by jpluimers on 2018/04/04

Abstract from this morning’s Twitter feed:

  • 1.1.1.1 [Wayback] DNS is broken in many areas (because of for instance AT&T, Vodafone, Cisco screwing up and 1.1.1.1 historically being marked for research purposes)
  • 9.9.9.9 [Wayback] DNS has government affiliation (owned by Quad9, but the partner list below does not look nice)

So what’s left?

There are a more interesting IPv4 addresses untaken for DNS, but I’m not sure they are likable enough:

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