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Any updates from Cloudflare on their replacement for EDNS that they are making with Google/Facebook/Netflix etc? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317

by GNOMES 5y ago

Any updates from Cloudflare on their replacement for EDNS that they are making with Google/Facebook/Netflix etc? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828317 ``We are working with the small number of networks with a higher network/ISP density than Cloudflare (e.g., Netflix, Facebook, Google/YouTube) to come up with an EDNS IP Subnet alternative that gets them the information they need for geolocation targeting without risking user privacy and security. Those conversations have been productive and are ongoing. If archive.is has suggestions along these lines, we’d be happy to consider them. ``

cnst 5y ago
It's a problem of their own making that doesn't require a solution. After the client gets the IP address of the content web server from the DNS resolver, the client has to connect directly to the content web server, and the whole IP address — not just the subnet — is immediately shared with the content server anyways. The market is supposed to regulate this abusive behaviour by showing how much slower the websites work when resolved through Cloudflare DNS compared to Google DNS or any other DNS providers that support EDNS Client Subnet. It seems that most of DNS benchmarks simply test how fast the names resolve, not how good of a resolution it is. So, it's a miss on the benchmark side.