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   Message 19,939 of 21,759   
   SH to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Public DNS Services   
   03 Sep 24 08:39:11   
   
   From: i.love@spam.com   
      
   On 02/09/2024 02:51, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:   
   > We all know about the public DNS services offered by Google (8.8.8.8,   
   > 8.8.4.4) and Cloudflare (1.1.1.1, 1.0.0.1); did you know these   
   > addresses have names as well? And of course there are IPv6 addresses to   
   > go with the IPv4 ones.   
   >   
   > Try this command to find out all the related Google DNS services:   
   >   
   >      host -a dns.google.   
   >   
   > (Yup, that’s “dns.google.”, no “.com” or anything else on the end.)   
   > That’s quite a breathtaking list of entries.   
   >   
   > For Cloudflare, try   
   >   
   >      host one.one.one.one.   
   >   
   > Note that the “-a” option (“tell me everything”) doesn’t work with   
   > Cloudflare; quite a few online services are now imposing restrictions   
   > on these “all info” lookups, but clearly not Google, at least not on   
   > this domain: obviously they want it to remain easy for people to   
   > discover the services they’re offering.   
      
   C:\Users\public>host   
      
   'host' is not recognized as an internal or external command,   
   operable program or batch file.   
      
   (On Windows 11)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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