Ask HN: How would it affect you if 8.8.8.8 service was terminated immediately?

(...including 8.8.4.4)

Obviously a lot of DNS resolution attempts in the internet would fail, but beyond that I see so many scripts and uplink tracking logics purely based on the fact, that 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 are ICMP / UDP 53 reachable. What would happen?

2 points | by _justme 2 hours ago

2 comments

  • Bender 30 minutes ago
    How would it affect you if 8.8.8.8 service was terminated immediately?

    I would not know. My firewall caches the root zone, talks directly to the tld servers and caches their responses.

  • WarOnPrivacy 1 hour ago
    There are plenty of good alternatives out there. I tend to not use Google's DNS but I do run into it. I'd' have to do an audit and switch over the stragglers.

    https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html