Europe having already planned to launch a service which will be called DNS4EU, it looks a bit like phishing.
Source: https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/collection/ict-standards-procure...
DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer
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#102Pity they couldn't get a cool IP address like Cloudflare and Google. Since without some source of DNS you can't reach dns0.eu it's good to have something memorable like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8
Use 1.1.1.1 to get the networking working, find DNS0.eu and change the DNS again :)
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#103I just use quad9: https://www.quad9.net/service/service-addresses-and-features
Which doesn't do ad blocking.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems like they went through enough trouble to ensure that the page is translated into the official languages of the EU which is usually only something you see on EU websites. For that reason, it does appear official'ish at first glance.
Maybe something is wrong in my browser, but changing the language just changes the tagline at the top, the rest of the body remains untranslated (English), except for French (founders are French) which translates the entire page.
They are crowdsourcing the translations. Most is still untranslated, only French is fully translated: https://crowdin.com/project/dns0
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#105> 193.110.81.0 Ah yes, easy to remember /s
My phone number is a little longer and yet I remember it, along with my own public IP address as well as my physical one. It depends how much you need to use it, of course.
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of those single digit addresses are in the hands of US corporations. Like 4.4.4.4 is Level 3.
2.0.0.0/16 and 2.2.0.0/16 are owned by Orange, a European company. I'm sure they'd be willing to lease 2.2.2.0/24 and 2.0.0.0/24 for a nominal fee 5.4.0.0/14 (so 5.5.5.5) is Telefonica Germany. Same thing there. Mercedes owns 53.0.0.0/8 which feels like a nice number for DNS too.
It's not the IP that's the problem.
It's the "anycast" mapping of the IP to geographically and network diverse hosts to connect the user to the "closest" (for some value of latency that stays within the data governance jurisdiction).
To do this, you basically have to own a large enough IP block that backbones will deal with it, and route map it.
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#107If I choose their DNS, the website shows a text at the bottom that says "You are using dns0.eu" How does the website know I'm using their DNS? I couldn't find anything in the HTTP header that would help them with this. https://imgur.com/fMZwxYz
JS does a GET request every 2 seconds or so to some random subdomain (probably to avoid caching): https://i.vgy.me/qCTabA.png
The JSON response contains 'status: "unconfigured"' when you're not using their resolver and 'status: "ok"' when you are: https://i.vgy.me/iVgIe1.png
That green bar just appears after a "ok" response (no page reload needed).
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#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because NextDNS is a for-profit company they probably can't get funding from the EU for these silly EU vanity projects so easily.
DNS is not a "vanity project", it's a massive issue in terms of internet governance. We've known this since the '90s, which is why the EU is starting its own service (that is not this one). I doubt this project got any EU funding, or is likely to ever get any EU money at all; in fact, it looks like a last-gasp attempt from a private DNS company to remain relevant.
DNS4EU is yet another EU vanity / pork barrel project. DNS resolvers are commercial failures as you point out and DNS4EU is going to do nothing to change that.
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#109Before i start digging into it, does anybody know how they do "No mature videos on YouTube" (in the "kids" filter) with just DNS?
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#110I just use quad9: https://www.quad9.net/service/service-addresses-and-features
From Romania, I've been getting random delays/timeouts with quad9.
I had the same issue here in Sweden. 1.5 second delays on some lookups. I opened a ticket and worked with them to isolate the issue, which they then fixed. They were very helpful and very knowledgeable for L1 support.