41–50 of 73 posts
It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works
In people’s defense DNS is complicated. Try building a product that uses it and realize there are a ton of edge cases to handle
There's a very interesting document by Cloudflare linked to it that describes why this was not your typical "change nameserver and done" transition: https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/48/contributions/1038/atta...
yet another example of DNSSEC "adding value"
It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't use https://esta.cbp.dhs.gov/esta/ from my country without an infinity of hcaptchas by CF turnstile.
Are you sure about that? esta.cbp.dhs.gov seems to served by akamai at least for me. Also turnstile and hcaptchas are same product(captcha) by 2 different companies.
https://www.webpagetest.org/result/240210_BiDcTM_7TZ/
That’s definitely an Akamai IP. I’d be quite surprised if they were leading address space to a direct competitor.
I can only imagine conspiracy theories flying around about government partnership with Cloudflare.
There doesn’t need to be any conspiracy theories when governments will often use their leveraged positions to get something from companies and punish them severely if they don't comply. If I remember correctly, there was a certain LEA which approached an US ISP for an informal surveillance request, they refused, and the LEA retaliated by cancelling their contract. I’m failing to find it, so I’d be happy if someone ca…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...
It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works
It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403055 - Verisign Loses Prestige .Gov Contract to Cloudflare (2023-01-16)
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There doesn’t need to be any conspiracy theories when governments will often use their leveraged positions to get something from companies and punish them severely if they don't comply. If I remember correctly, there was a certain LEA which approached an US ISP for an informal surveillance request, they refused, and the LEA retaliated by cancelling their contract. I’m failing to find it, so I’d be happy if someone ca…
That sounds vaguely like Qwest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_of_NSA_surveilla...