[sf-lug] [1.1.1.1]

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 15:26 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Bobbie Sellers (bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com):
> 
> > Hi Maestro and the rest of the LUGers,
> > 
> >     On Usenet in alt.os.linux.ubuntu there is a long thread about
> this.
> > The bench testers have determined that the only advantage may
> > be the simple entry of 1.1.1.1 which is no simpler than 8.8.8.8.
> > The so- called "CloudFlare" DNS site is no faster than many others
> > and slower than some.  It may be simply another user data collection
> > scheme.
> 
> You know what's faster and a great deal more privacy-protecting than
> either of those?  Just have a local recursive nameserver of one's own
> -- 
> which is very simple to do.

Yeah, well, one of the people to whom I said this replied to the effect
of "That would be nice, but I have to use an ISP that filters outgoing
traffic on port 53 to servers other than theirs."