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1.1.1.1. 1.1.1.1 is a free Domain Name System (DNS) service by the American company Cloudflare in partnership with APNIC. [7] [needs update] The service functions as a recursive name server, providing domain name resolution for any host on the Internet. The service was announced on April 1, 2018. [8]
Address record. Returns a 32-bit IPv4 address, most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host, but it is also used for DNSBLs, storing subnet masks in RFC 1101, etc. AAAA. 28. RFC 3596 [2] IPv6 address record. Returns a 128-bit IPv6 address, most commonly used to map hostnames to an IP address of the host.
Cloudflare, Inc. is an American company that provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, wide area network services, Domain Name Service, and ICANN -accredited [3] domain registration services. [4] [5] [6] Cloudflare's headquarters are in San Francisco, California. [4]
This gives a prefix length of 48 bits, which leaves room for a 16-bit subnet field and 64 bit host addresses within the subnets. Any IPv6 address that begins with the 2002:: / 16 prefix (in other words, any address with the first two octets of 2002 hexadecimal) is known as a 6to4 address , as opposed to a native IPv6 address which does not ...
Reverse DNS lookup. In computer networks, a reverse DNS lookup or reverse DNS resolution ( rDNS) is the querying technique of the Domain Name System (DNS) to determine the domain name associated with an IP address – the reverse of the usual "forward" DNS lookup of an IP address from a domain name. [1] The process of reverse resolving of an IP ...
Public recursive name server. A public recursive name server (also called public DNS resolver) is a name server service that networked computers may use to query the Domain Name System (DNS), the decentralized Internet naming system, in place of (or in addition to) name servers operated by the local Internet service provider (ISP) to which the ...
eBPF is a technology that can run programs in a privileged context such as the operating system kernel. [5] It is the successor to the Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF, with the "e" originally meaning "extended") filtering mechanism in Linux and is also used in non-networking parts of the Linux kernel as well.
The owner of self-serve web archiving tool Archive.today has expressed concern over Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 not passing the contents of this field on to the authoritative DNS server for Archive.today, and has in response configured the site's authoritative DNS servers to consider Cloudflare DNS requests invalid—effectively blocking 1.1.1.1 from resolving the website DNS records.