On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:00:53AM -0500, Ken Hohhof wrote:
[...]
> There is a whole movement telling people that ISP resolvers are slow
> and insecure, that it will be faster and safer to use DNS over HTTPS
> to 1.1.1.1 or something similar. I’ve never quite understood the claim
> that it’s faster to use cloud DNS.  You could maybe say they have a
> bigger customer base and therefore more cached entries, but that
> doesn’t seem to be their claim.  It’s like they think 8.8.8.8 or
> 1.1.1.1 is closer to the customer than the ISP’s servers, which
> baffles me.  And as far as cache size, it seems most sites now set the
> TTL so low that all queries are recursive.

There are two issues:
  -- how far away is your recursor?
  -- how much PII are they scooping up?

Vixie's given this talk a couple of times, and I think this one at
SCaLE is likely the best one on YouTube:
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=artLJOwToVY



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