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How did they get that address?
by waymon 1y ago
How did they get that address?
- jedberg 1y ago“ APNIC's research group held the IP addresses 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1. While the addresses were valid, so many people had entered them into various random systems that they were continuously overwhelmed by a flood of garbage traffic. APNIC wanted to study this garbage traffic but any time they'd tried to announce the IPs, the flood would overwhelm any conventional network.” https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/
- udev4096 1y agoOn a separate note, why was cloudflare given the ownership of 1.1.1.1?
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 1y agoIt is explained in that blogpost from Cloudflare 'We offered Cloudflare's network to receive and study the garbage traffic in exchange for being able to offer a DNS resolver on the memorable IPs'