Cloudflare 1.1.1.1: The truth about DNS experiment and garbage

The new DNS servers provided by Cloudflare the Sunday: and promised an increase in speed as well as more στα προσωπικά μας δεδομένα είναι ουσιαστικά ένα πείραμα που διεξάγεται σε συνεργασία με το Κέντρο Πληροφοριών Δικτύου Ασίας-Ειρηνικού (APNIC από το Pacific Network Information Centre).

The experiment aims to improve DNS in performance, security, and privacy.Cloudflare

“We depend on the integrity of the DNS, but the details of how of services continue to remain opaque", says project leader from APNIC, Mr. Geoff Huston in a publication.

I should mention that I have personally been involved with the APNIC network and was not happy at all. The network gives incredible speeds locally (in Asian countries) but try downloading something from it for example…

“We know that DNS for malicious denial of service (DDoS) attacks and we are trying to understand if there are more steps we can take to stop these types of attacks. The DNS are based on caching but we are not yet sure how well it is implemented…”

Huston, a Hall of Fame champion on the Internet, has been working for many years with DNS srvers and supports the specific experiment that promises to improve DNS resiliency against DDoS attacks.
The Cloudflare-APNIC experiment uses two addresses IPv4, 1.1.1.0 / 24 and 1.0.0.0 / 24, which are committed to research use. Cloudflare's new DNS uses two of these addresses: 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1.

These addresses were originally referred to as "dark traffic addresses" and a few years ago APNIC partnered with Google to analyze all the unwanted traffic it received.

"Our initial work showed that the management was attracted to unusually large amounts of malicious traffic. At the time we were researching it with Google, it was over 50 gigabits per second. "

So by experimenting with Cloudflare using the same addresses as public DNS, APNIC records both the noise and the traffic of DNS - or at least "a certain percentage" of them, for research purposes.

Huston has pointed out that APNIC intends to protect the privacy of users.

Please note that IP 1.1.1.1 is intended to be used only for research, Cloudflare-APNIC experiment. However, as the new service seems to work well before, it has revealed that many operating systems use it for various malicious hacks that violate basic routing standards on the Internet.

For the truth, see the following tweets:

https://twitter.com/leojloke/status/981323146446942208

https://twitter.com/billplein/status/981307410643148801

At present, Mr Huston is not reported to have analyzed the traffic to find out how much trash is circulating with this experiment, but he said the traffic is getting too many gigabits per second.

So if you're one of those who are testing the new service, it's good to wait a bit until it stabilizes. Besides, you may already have seen slow speeds, although it was completely promising.

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