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From a marketing point of view, I think it was a brilliant move from Cloudflare to get the 1.1.1.1 address. Clearly better than 8.8.8.8! But from a user perspe

From a marketing point of view, I think it was a brilliant move from Cloudflare to get the 1.1.1.1 address. Clearly better than 8.8.8.8! But from a user perspective, why couldn't they have just let that address be... So many things are going to break just because Cloudflare wants a pretty IP. Sure, the things that break were using a hack, but in my opinion that doesn't automatically make it okay to break it. Now I'm just waiting for a startup to launch a Stack Overflow competitor on example.com...

klez 9y ago
example.com (and other example.*) is reserved for documentation purposes, i.e. you can't buy it.
- bananskalshalk 9y ago
  Like blocks 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1), 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2) and 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3) from rfc5737? Or is it to new, maybe 192.0.2.0/24 from rfc2119 is better? There is a few test-nets for documentation, just like example.com.
- jakobegger 9y ago
  Just like 1.1.1.1 used to be null routed?
  - duggan 9y ago
    Not exactly; example.com and .org are reserved in RFC 2606[1]. 1.1.1.1 is not listed in the special use RFC[2], it's just an address previously unused by APNIC. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 [2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735
ptaipale 9y ago
8.8.8.8 goes pretty well in the Chinese market. (8 being a popular number.) I think 1.1.1.1 is not such a hit.
- philliphaydon 9y ago
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  - flyingfences 9y ago
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- croshan 9y ago
  Eh, I don't think it goes as well as you think, considering it's been banned for years [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2komqe/china_blocking_dns_servers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2komqe/china_bloc...
  - ptaipale 9y ago
    True for access from mainland China, though the scope of Chinese culture is a bit larger. And just knowing that Google has that number is a bit like them owning a license plate or phone number with pure eights...
jjuhl 9y ago
Many things break because they were abusing things and using a "hack". They deserve to break!
dx034 9y ago
What breaks with 1.1.1.1? Some people can't use it because of misconfiguration but it shouldn't break any services?
jonny_eh 9y ago
They also provide 1.0.0.1, easy enough to set that up as your client's backup.

klez 9y ago

example.com (and other example.*) is reserved for documentation purposes, i.e. you can't buy it.

bananskalshalk 9y ago
Like blocks 192.0.2.0/24 (TEST-NET-1), 198.51.100.0/24 (TEST-NET-2) and 203.0.113.0/24 (TEST-NET-3) from rfc5737? Or is it to new, maybe 192.0.2.0/24 from rfc2119 is better? There is a few test-nets for documentation, just like example.com.
jakobegger 9y ago
Just like 1.1.1.1 used to be null routed?
- duggan 9y ago
  Not exactly; example.com and .org are reserved in RFC 2606[1]. 1.1.1.1 is not listed in the special use RFC[2], it's just an address previously unused by APNIC. [1]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606 [2]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5735

ptaipale 9y ago

8.8.8.8 goes pretty well in the Chinese market. (8 being a popular number.) I think 1.1.1.1 is not such a hit.

philliphaydon 9y ago
Fa.Fa.Fa.Fa
- flyingfences 9y ago
  fa fa fa fa fa far better
croshan 9y ago
Eh, I don't think it goes as well as you think, considering it's been banned for years [0]. [0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2komqe/china_blocking_dns_servers/ https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2komqe/china_bloc...
- ptaipale 9y ago
  True for access from mainland China, though the scope of Chinese culture is a bit larger. And just knowing that Google has that number is a bit like them owning a license plate or phone number with pure eights...

jjuhl 9y ago

Many things break because they were abusing things and using a "hack". They deserve to break!

dx034 9y ago

What breaks with 1.1.1.1? Some people can't use it because of misconfiguration but it shouldn't break any services?

jonny_eh 9y ago

They also provide 1.0.0.1, easy enough to set that up as your client's backup.