Having another public DNS resolver is a positive development. The more options we have, the less we rely on a few providers. This particular resolver, managed by the Wikimedia Foundation, adds to the diversity and resilience of the DNS ecosystem…
As of June 28, 2024, the public DNS resolver OpenDNS has ceased to respond to IP addresses located in France. This measure follows the demands of rights holders, as demonstrated by the test conducted using the dig tool from an IP address of the ISP Free:…
A geofeed is a list of IP address ranges associated with geolocation information. The principle was authored by Google in July 2013. Starting August 2020, it was officially published as a standard under RFC 8805 with the name A Format for Self-Published IP Geolocation Feeds. This is now the gold standard for sharing geolocation information…