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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 5e92cb50239222b »

richij wrote: post #68
5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

90 ms. So much.

Keep your sarcasm to yourself. Multiply 90ms by sometimes dozens of domains modern websites like to load from. Occasionally ISP reroutes me to another Cloudflare colocation and ping to 1.1.1.1 rises to 20-25 ms. It's easily noticeable. I like to play the guessing game, and almost always "win".

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

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Post by throwaway894345 »

ulimn wrote: post #42
leohonexus wrote: post #29

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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.

Sure, but “European public…” definitely sounds like it’s a service offered by some pan-European government body. In hindsight I understand this isn’t how it was intended.

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

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Post by zxcvbn4038 »

toyg wrote: post #40
Y_Y wrote: post #4

Pity 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

yeah I think that's really a big shortcoming. It probably comes down to funding, but it results in a big usability issue. I'll never remember those IPs, and when I can so easily remember 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, it's obvious what I'm always going to choose.

No IPv6 either

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

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Post by surmoi »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #93
toyg wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah I think that's really a big shortcoming. It probably comes down to funding, but it results in a big usability issue. I'll never remember those IPs, and when I can so easily remember 1.1.1.1 and 8.8.8.8, it's obvious what I'm always going to choose.

No IPv6 either

They have, but they listed them only in the Others and Linux tab for some reasons 2a0f:fc80:: 2a0f:fc81::

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

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Post by sgjohnson »

moffkalast wrote: post #6

> 193.110.81.0 Ah yes, easy to remember /s

The era of easy to remember DNS server addresses is coming to a close anyway, due to IPv6.

Cloudflare’s are 2606:4700:4700:1001:: and 2606:4700:4700:1111::

I’ve been deploying IPv6 recently and these addresses haven’t burnt into my brains yet, so I occasionally have to do `dig AAAA one.one.one.one` still.

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

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Post by ignoramous »

breton wrote: post #25
theshrike79 wrote: post #7

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NextDNS lets me pick what to block, I can't configure DNS0 except for the few variants that require me to change the DNS address completely. Also: I can't pay for DNS0, so how can I trust they stay up when I'm not their customer?

How can you trust they stay up when you are their customer and pay them?

DNS resolvers aren't that expensive to run. Besides, one of the founders of dns0.eu has already scaled and sold a venture-backed startup (DailyMotion: https://archive.is/4pN5e), and currently employed as Director at Netflix. Pretty sure they can keep paying for dns0.eu servers for multiple decades. The only problem is maintenance, which is automatable to a large extent.

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

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

shasts wrote: post #97

If 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

They could be giving out different IP (or CNAME) for people using their DNS. Then the site is just slightly different depending on how it is accessed. or i suppose they could be looking at logs of the ips using their dns and checking all visitors to the website, but that would be wild.

ooh they could also have a host that is only resolvable from those servers, and have the front end dynamically load that message from that host. and if it fails it does not show anything.

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

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Post by HerrMonnezza »

shasts wrote: post #97

If 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

I guess they redirect you to a different IP than they publish in the public DNS?
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