Cloudflare DNS is down (1.1.1.1) (opens in new tab)

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22 pointsewenjo1y ago10 comments

10 comments

Recentralization of the Internet around huge for-profit companies isn't good and doesn't help people.

They are better than my ISP. My ISP is very aggressive about abusing the fact they offer DNS service to their customers. Several domains are inaccessible or get routed to some marketing garbage.

Until something better comes along, I will continue to use Clouflare and Google DNS.

Also, the Cloudflare DNS is working for me. If it was down, it was brief.

tredre31y ago

> Until something better comes along, I will continue to use Clouflare and Google DNS.

Quad9 is likely better when it comes to respecting your privacy and not feeding into the cloudflare monolith. It also optionally supports EDNS, which Cloudflare breaks leading to occasional issues with archive.is (to be fair archive.is breaks it on purpose out of spite).

tiernano1y ago

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/4qndvvfbh4w5

londons_explore1y ago

This is why you have a primary and secondary DNS resolver...

bcrl1y ago

The reality is that most applications become pretty much unusable when the primary DNS server is not working.

whatsthatabout1y ago

btw „primary“ and „secondary“ dns resolver is not working the way it sounds at first. It’s more like a loadbalancer instead of fail-over.

luuurker1y ago

Yep, not responding here in the UK.

jumby1y ago

Agree

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OedipusRex1y ago

Another tally in the “It was DNS” box

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