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Tell HN: Cloudflare DNS doesn't resolve videolan.org

2 pointsmakeworld6 comments

Cloudflare DNS, aka 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, doesn't seem to resolve videolan.org right now, or any of its subdomains. Google DNS (8.8.8.8) seems to work fine, and ns[01].videolan.org resolves it fine as well. Because of this, I can no longer access the VLC site without switching my entire DNS.

Anyone know why this is happening? Queries for videolan.org are also taking >1900 msec occasionally.

EDIT: This appears to be a Toronto issue.

It resolves just fine for me on 1.1.1.1:

    nslookup videolan.org
    Server:  1.1.1.1
    Address: 1.1.1.1#53

    Non-authoritative answer:
    Name: videolan.org
    Address: 213.36.253.2

You and makeworld are not likely in the same AnyCast zone and are likely hitting different datacenters and clusters. The cluster they are hitting may have a temporary problem. They should contact CF support and provide their IP and the output.

Yes, seems like a Toronto issue. Where can I contact CF?

    dig @1.0.0.1 videolan.org
    dig @1.1.1.1 videolan.org

resolve fine for me now in T.

Still having the issue, weird.

I do not know. If you have a CDN or DNS account with them, then that is probably the best way. Otherwise, just have multiple resolvers in your DNS config so you do not have a single point of success.

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