> On May 22, 2020, at 3:38 AM, Paul Vixie <p...@redbarn.org> wrote: > > On Friday, 22 May 2020 00:55:34 UTC George Michaelson wrote: >> My Colleague George Kuo asked me for definitions of public DNS >> service. not "public DNS" but the trigram "public DNS service" >> >> Colloquially we understand this reasonably well. It is in the space of >> what Google, quad9, CloudFlare and others do. The various clean DNS >> feeds people subscribe to, it is the functional role of a recursive, >> but to the public, yet somehow not the bad one of an open DNS resolver >> being abused to do DDoS: its the conscious service offering of a >> recursive/cache/forwarder in the public view, a declared intent. > > these services aren't public in any way, and should not be described as > public. they are operated privately for private purposes
True of Google and Cloudflare, not true of Quad9.
> a county park is public. anycast RDNS is a business.
Again, true of Google and Cloudflare, but not true of Quad9.
-Bill
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