Re: Yet another Quadruple DNS?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer () nic fr>]

On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 07:33:08AM -0400,
 Matt Hoppes <mattlists () rivervalleyinternet net> wrote 
 a message of 7 lines which said:

> We already have 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4.

And 9.9.9.9 and several others public DNS resolvers.

> And any reputable company or ISP should be running their own.

I fully agree.
 
> What purpose would this serve?

In Europe, the most common technique of censorship is through lying
DNS resolvers. So, in order to go to forbidden Web sites (music and
film sharing, for instance), many users switched from the ISP's
resolver (which implements the censorship) to a public resolver. See
my talk at NANOG
<https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/Bortzmeyer_Dns-Based_Censorship.pdf>