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Why is no one using Quad9 instead of Cloudfare?
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I use it for dns
Four 9s? How is anyone going to remember that?
Quad9 for Quadruple Nine
Zoom. (Or whoosh.)
it's 1 more after 8! Is there no mercy?
r/unexpectedfactorial and before you tell me: I know that this is not reddit. But 8! is a very large number and you probably didn't mean it like that.
IPv4:
IPv6:
All from memory lol. I set it up a lot for people at home and businesses. That's for DNSSEC, filtered, non ECS.
Edit: you can also use https://dns.quad9.net/dns-query for mobile iirc.