The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter • Hacker News Board

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by ehsankia » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

drdeca wrote: post #8

randomerr wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, its real. Slow but real. It makes a good backup DNS so you could use it to manually update your 'hosts' files.

I knew that it worked, I just assumed that it was made as a joke Usually if I don't have dns access I don't have an easy way to access twitter I think? I could be wrong about this. Is this meant to be used by text messages?

And if you do have access to a website, there are many other sites you can use for resolving addresses.

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by JeremyBanks » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:06 PM UTC

drdeca wrote: post #8

randomerr wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, its real. Slow but real. It makes a good backup DNS so you could use it to manually update your 'hosts' files.

I knew that it worked, I just assumed that it was made as a joke Usually if I don't have dns access I don't have an easy way to access twitter I think? I could be wrong about this. Is this meant to be used by text messages?

You can use Twitter via SMS, I suppose. =P

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by cm2187 » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:14 PM UTC

randomerr wrote: post #6

drdeca wrote: post #4

I assume this is as a joke?

Nope, its real. Slow but real. It makes a good backup DNS so you could use it to manually update your 'hosts' files.

What I really need is DNS over Fax.

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by pbreit » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

Is there any difference between which address you list first in your DNS list (1.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.1)? I saw a suggestion to list 1.0.0.1 first since it likely gets much less traffic.

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by microcolonel » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:24 PM UTC

neilalexander wrote: post #10

Given the number of people that still can't route to 1.1.1.1, this is an interesting backup!

Interested to see who that might be, it seems a bit nuts that that wouldn't work.

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by goldfishparty » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:25 PM UTC

drdeca wrote: post #8

randomerr wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope, its real. Slow but real. It makes a good backup DNS so you could use it to manually update your 'hosts' files.

I knew that it worked, I just assumed that it was made as a joke Usually if I don't have dns access I don't have an easy way to access twitter I think? I could be wrong about this. Is this meant to be used by text messages?

Write a short script to resolve Twitter's address. Run it on a cron to pop it into your hosts file.

Now you can get to Twitter in the case of a resolver being down. Woo!

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by kichuku » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:27 PM UTC

Great! Now the whole world can see which domains you are interested in. This is supposed to be some last resort backup when all other DNS servers (8.8.8.8 and others) are down or blocked? In that extreme case of unavailability, what is the guarantee that local Govt is not involved and Twitter and/or sms to Twitter is not blocked.

Am I missing any use case here?

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by arghwhat » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:28 PM UTC

pbreit wrote: post #14

Is there any difference between which address you list first in your DNS list (1.0.0.1 and 1.1.1.1)? I saw a suggestion to list 1.0.0.1 first since it likely gets much less traffic.

I believe they point to the same network of servers, making it exactly the same. Having two IP addresses is just custom, and makes users resilient to address issues affecting one of the addresses.

It also might help APNIC establish how much of the traffic to 1.1.1.1 is due to Cloudflare running a popular public DNS service, vs. how much is due to the address by subtracting the 1.0.0.1 traffic from the 1.1.1.1 data.

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by neilalexander » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #15

neilalexander wrote: post #10

Given the number of people that still can't route to 1.1.1.1, this is an interesting backup!

Interested to see who that might be, it seems a bit nuts that that wouldn't work.

People who are sat behind devices configured by lazy sysadmins who copied configuration examples out of a textbook. Also people on some public Wi-Fi networks - I have noticed 1.1.1.1 being used for HTTP landing pages more than once.

Re: The 1.1.1.1 resolver now supports DNS over Twitter

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Post by arghwhat » Fri, Apr 06, 2018, 6:29 PM UTC

microcolonel wrote: post #15

neilalexander wrote: post #10

Given the number of people that still can't route to 1.1.1.1, this is an interesting backup!

Interested to see who that might be, it seems a bit nuts that that wouldn't work.

Many. There's a lot of network configurations that accidentally use 1.1.1.1, for example for VPN endpoints.

Some AT&T users are having issues because of such fuckery.