zlacker

Amazon is indeed not a "another free DNS service", that should have to be in different points of time. Overloaded a "free DNS service" they launched an EC2 instance, or vice versa.

> They could've gotten geographical data from 1.1.1.1 to the accuracy of the edge nodes but decided to just outright block 1.1.1.1.

Yes.

But they cannot get back in time to getting information from the edges simple by unblocking.

Since CloudFlare sends queries not from the edges.

So there is a deadlock atm.