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Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy (betanews.com)

Posted by msmash on from the how-about-that dept.

BrianFagioli writes: Today, Cloudflare announces a new consumer DNS service with a focus on privacy. Called '1.1.1.1.' it quite literally uses that easy-to-remeber IP address as the primary DNS server. Why announce on April Fool's Day? Because the IP is four ones and today's date is 4/1 -- clever. The secondary server is 1.0.0.1 -- also easy to remember.

The big question is why? With solid offerings from Google and Comodo, for instance, does the world need another DNS service? The answer is yes, because Cloudflare intends to focus on both speed, and more importantly, privacy.

2 of 225 comments (clear)

  1. Re: Too bad Cisco uses this for a virtual IP in so by Tim+the+Gecko · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think you're confusing it with 10.x.x.x.

    I don't think they are. For example: https://supportforums.cisco.co...

  2. Pretty fast by TFlan91 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just ran a benchmark of the service, here are my results:


      Final benchmark results, sorted by nameserver performance:
      (average cached name retrieval speed, fastest to slowest)

            1. 0. 0. 1 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        - Cached Name | 0.020 | 0.023 | 0.029 | 0.002 | 98.0 |
        - Uncached Name | 0.022 | 0.090 | 0.287 | 0.075 | 100.0 |
        - DotCom Lookup | 0.049 | 0.055 | 0.066 | 0.003 | 100.0 |
                            1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com
                        CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US

            1. 1. 1. 1 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        - Cached Name | 0.021 | 0.023 | 0.030 | 0.002 | 95.9 |
        - Uncached Name | 0.022 | 0.096 | 0.325 | 0.082 | 100.0 |
        - DotCom Lookup | 0.048 | 0.073 | 0.166 | 0.043 | 100.0 |
                            1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com
                    MEGAPATH2-US - MegaPath Networks Inc., US

            8. 8. 4. 4 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        + Cached Name | 0.048 | 0.052 | 0.057 | 0.002 | 100.0 |
        + Uncached Name | 0.060 | 0.104 | 0.344 | 0.073 | 100.0 |
        + DotCom Lookup | 0.063 | 0.070 | 0.158 | 0.014 | 100.0 |
                              google-public-dns-b.google.com
                                      GOOGLE - Google LLC, US

            8. 8. 8. 8 | Min | Avg | Max |Std.Dev|Reliab%|
        + Cached Name | 0.049 | 0.053 | 0.060 | 0.002 | 98.0 |
        + Uncached Name | 0.057 | 0.106 | 0.367 | 0.077 | 100.0 |
        + DotCom Lookup | 0.063 | 0.073 | 0.156 | 0.020 | 100.0 |
                              google-public-dns-a.google.com
                                      GOOGLE - Google LLC, US