Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Feb 26, 2021 10:40 UTC (Fri) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Fedora and fallback DNS servers by pizza
Parent article: Fedora and fallback DNS servers

> (TBH I'd be quite surprised if Google and/or Cloudfare make any money off of their public DNS resolver, much less enough to offset the cost of providing/maintaining the service..)

The systems running the public DNS resolvers are there anyway, they provide search / content acceleration. Data gained from them helps identify malicious users (if suddenly 100k random queries for random123.s0me0bscured0ma1n.com show up, something fishy may be going on) which helps both secure and/or run their other services. So I strongly suspect that their effect is net positive.