1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

1. veidr ◴[01 Apr 18 13:10 UTC] No.16728086[source]▶

Just curious: can somebody shed light on how they got the 1.1.1.1 IP address?

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2. vidyesh ◴[01 Apr 18 13:15 UTC] No.16728109[source]▶

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.

We talked to the APNIC team about how we wanted to create a privacy-first, extremely fast DNS system. They thought it was a laudable goal. 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. And, with that, 1.1.1.1 was born

https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-1111/

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3. tomputer ◴[01 Apr 18 13:17 UTC] No.16728116[source]▶

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It is explained on the bottom of the page:

Who’s behind this?

1.1.1.1 is a partnership between Cloudflare and APNIC.

Cloudflare runs one of the world’s largest, fastest networks. APNIC is a non-profit organization managing IP address allocation for the Asia Pacific and Oceania regions.

Cloudflare had the network. APNIC had the IP address (1.1.1.1). Both of us were motivated by a mission to help build a better Internet. You can read more about each organization’s motivations on our respective posts: Cloudflare Blog / APNIC Blog.

4. bvm ◴[01 Apr 18 13:18 UTC] No.16728121[source]▶

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http://packetlife.net/blog/2010/feb/5/ripe-plays-with-1-0-0-...

5. dang ◴[01 Apr 18 13:21 UTC] No.16728135[source]▶

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Thanks. Since https://1.1.1.1/ was posted the other day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16716606), we've changed the URL above to that blog post.