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DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by daneel_w »

__alexs wrote: post #33
daneel_w wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is this a "silly EU vanity project"?

There is an EU fund for silly projects like Gaia-X which are mostly about vanity rather than actually producing anything useful. I am suggesting they've formed a non-profit to try and benefit from this fund.

Yeah I don't see what's silly about providing a resolver with the features being offered, no matter the "EU" branding or official project funding. Right off the bat I'm willing to bet these guys are more genuine and honest about privacy/integrity than e.g. Google.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by ulimn »

leohonexus wrote: post #29
preisschild wrote: post #20

Is this actually affiliated with the EU, other than just being hosted in the EU?

Not affiliated with EU at all. Their branding and wording makes it look like they are until you scroll to the bottom and read the About. Admittedly I don't live in the EU so to some of you folks the non-affiliation may seem obvious.

Well... I understand what you mean but they only have "European" in their title. Europe != European Union.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by capableweb »

moffkalast wrote: post #12
andix wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you need to remember the dns server address? I just type it in once.

Once on every device, VM, container, VPS, etc. That's a lot of times.

Or, setup everything to use a resolver on your router, configure your router once. So when you want to change in the future, only one place.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by capableweb »

wtch98 wrote: post #34
sschueller wrote: post #13

Earlier 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.

Telefonica and Orange are hardly companies that would just let you lease "valuable" ipv4 addresses without having to pay a hefty sum.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by toyg »

__alexs wrote: post #27
iruoy wrote: post #11

This is founded by co-founders of NextDNS. But why? How is it different?

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.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by rbanffy »

moffkalast wrote: post #12
andix wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you need to remember the dns server address? I just type it in once.

Once on every device, VM, container, VPS, etc. That's a lot of times.

That's what things like Ansible and VM base images are for.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by leohonexus »

capableweb wrote: post #39
leohonexus wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not affiliated with EU at all. Their branding and wording makes it look like they are until you scroll to the bottom and read the About. Admittedly I don't live in the EU so to some of you folks the non-affiliation may seem obvious.

> Their branding and wording makes it look like they are Because the website is blue and mentions "European Union"? It doesn't say anywhere that it's a official EU project, nor does it contain some of the famous "banners" that EU projects usually have in the footer to show their grants/funding, nor is it on a official EU domain. Clearly a not-EU project from first glance.

I don't live in the EU (nor the Americas for that matter) so I'm speaking from first impressions of browsing the site.

Re: DNS0: The European public DNS that makes your internet safer

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

nix23 wrote: post #23

I just use quad9: https://www.quad9.net/service/service-addresses-and-features

I wish they'd put more resolvers around the globe. I have 10ms ping to the nearest Cloudflare colocation, but around 100ms to quad9. It makes browsing the web so much slower.
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