Cloudflare launches new Public DNS

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

opethdisciple

Soldato
Joined
18 May 2010
Posts
23,505
Location
London
I noticed this today.

CloudFlare article.

It sounds great!! Faster than Google and Open DNS and all the security and privacy tech available.

However... it being posted on April Fools.... is this just a joke?

Doesn't seem to be a joke.

---

Well I tried it and found that YouTube videos where not buffering ahead fast enough to keep videos playing smoothly. Google DNS seemed better.
 
Last edited:
A quick DNS benchmark isn't showing it as being the quickest for me. My own DNS server is pfSense with local cache plus Google DNS.

MVJ1yOm.png
 
andy_mk3 said:
My own DNS server
Click to expand...
Ignore the red part of the graph. Look at the length of the green and blue bars, and compare them with yours. Your red bar (cached results) is almost zero because it is on your network, so there's no latency returning results that are already in your router's cache. But look at the time to resolve which is what green and blue are. Waaaay shorter on 1.1.1.1 than on your router. If you hover over the IP addresses on the left, it will give you the average latency in milliseconds. In short: 1.1.1.1 is much quicker than everything else.
 
rotor said:
Ignore the red part of the graph. Look at the length of the green and blue bars, and compare them with yours. Your red bar (cached results) is almost zero because it is on your network, so there's no latency returning results that are already in your router's cache. But look at the time to resolve which is what green and blue are. Waaaay shorter on 1.1.1.1 than on your router. If you hover over the IP addresses on the left, it will give you the average latency in milliseconds. In short: 1.1.1.1 is much quicker than everything else.
Click to expand...

You're right. I've not used this benchmark in ages and got the two mixed up I think! In which case, it is indeed much quicker :)
 
I think the idea is really not to give the likes of Google and Facebook et al any more of our data. Which I think is what CloudFlare are banking on.

The other thing is the source code is open source and they have KPMG auditing them to back up their claims of privacy and security.
 
Last edited:
Possibly the only gotcha is that "Cloudflare is sharing DNS query data with APNIC Labs, a part of Asian registry APNIC, in exchange for the use of its 1.1.1.1 network address."

"The regional internet registry insists it wants to better understand the technical intricacies of DNS, in order to mitigate denial-of-service attacks and to optimize server communication. The research relationship is set to run for at least five years, after which it may be renewed and APNIC will consider permanently allocating the 1.1.1.1 IP address – along with 1.0.0.1 – to Cloudflare"

APNIC goes on to say:

"We will be destroying all 'raw' DNS data as soon as we have performed statistical analysis on the data flow," APNIC Labs said in a blog post on Sunday.

"We will not be compiling any form of profiles of activity that could be used to identify individuals, and we will ensure that any retained processed data is sufficiently generic that it will not be susceptible to efforts to reconstruct individual profiles."

APNIC Labs says that it will also limit access to the data by its researchers and will abide by its non-disclosure policies."

Link.
 
APM said:
Anyone know where the servers are geographcally?
Click to expand...
Seems slow from down here in Oxon, looks like its up north;


1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.1.254
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms host-78-151-229-51.as13285.net [78.151.229.51]
5 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms host-78-151-229-54.as13285.net [78.151.229.54]
6 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms host-78-144-8-122.as13285.net [78.144.8.122]
7 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms host-78-144-8-123.as13285.net [78.144.8.123]
8 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms host-78-144-8-250.as13285.net [78.144.8.250]
9 25 ms 14 ms 14 ms ixmanchester.as13335.net [195.66.244.71]
10 14 ms 14 ms 14 ms 1dot1dot1dot1.cloudflare-dns.com [1.1.1.1]

By comparison google in london is down at 6-7ms, i'm only on a FTTC VDSL line hence.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom