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1. tick_t+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-08-02 17:36:34
EDNS is OPTIONAL. archive.is is objectively in the wrong here.
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2. johnkl+83[view] [source] 2023-08-02 17:49:42
>>tick_t+(OP)
EDNS is in part how using one IP address across the world can work without tons of latency for everyone who isn't geographically local. In other words, 1.1.1.1 would be a lot shittier, and the DNS answers they provide would be much less geographically appropriate, if they didn't make use of information about the source of a query.

In other words, Cloudflare expects us to think they're so special that they should get to do what they explicitly don't want others doing.

It's bullshit, particularly for all the people who are victims of Cloudflare's manipulations such as the default use of Cloudflare DNS servers for DNS-over-https on Firefox, which users were never asked about before it was enabled for them (at least in the US).

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3. nora-p+a6[view] [source] 2023-08-02 18:00:48
>>tick_t+(OP)
"You ask me for an IP address, but you don't ask me with respect".

Respect is optional too. But it is important.

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4. tick_t+yG[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-08-02 20:19:55
>>johnkl+83
Cloudflare is not special or unique tons of resolvers don't support EDNS. archive.is serves them all the same they only lie in their response if the source is Cloudflare.

It's actually really funny archive.is works from time to time on 1.1.1.1 which I'm assuming is when archive.is hasn't update their IP list / detection logic. I wonder how much time they spend maintaining that if they blocked everyone without EDNS it would be easy but since it's just Cloudflare....

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