Interestingly, 1.1.1.1, which is Cloudflare's famous public DNS resolver, is not included in that list of IPv4 addresses:
IP Ranges | Cloudflare https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/ Their main reference page (above) doesn't seem to mention it, but I wonder if it might be prudent to whitelist it as well (in addition to Cloudflare's official list) to ensure smoother operations overall. > Hello, > > I believe you can enumerate cloudflare IPs via : > > https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v4 > https://www.cloudflare.com/ips-v6 > > It's likely an overfit situation (not just resolvers), but it's something. > > -tony > > On 12/2/23 21:57, Arne Jensen via mailop wrote: > > Always happy to help! And wauh, times flies by these days... > > > > First of all - I completely agree with you, that several things could be > > better here ;-). > > > > Taking the four major ones, the top list, from best to worst, might be > > like: > > > > 1. OpenDNS > > 2. Google > > 3. Quad 9/PCH > > 4. Cloudflare > > > > Given your mention of "internal documentation", maybe there could be > > something more for you to document, if you haven't already: > > > > Google does, as mentioned previously, document their resolver > > infrastructure on the Web, contrary to many others, but also with a JSON: > > > > -> API/JSON: https://www.gstatic.com/ipranges/publicdns.json > > > > OpenDNS is also documenting theirs, and also have PTR on the outgoing > > resolver IP, but unfortunately, the PTR **doesn't always** point to one > > of their OpenDNS.* domain names, which could be confusing: > > > > Reaching OpenDNS Copenhagen: > > - 146.112.135.70 (r7.compute.cph1.edc.strln.net) > > - 2a04:e4c0:17::73 (r10.compute.cph1.edc.strln.net) > > > > Reaching OpenDNS London: > > - 208.69.34.73 (m53.lon.opendns.com) > > - 2a04:e4c0:10::91 (r3.compute.lon1.edc.strln.net) > > > > It is however consistent with their locations as retrieved from here: > > > > -> Web: https://www.opendns.com/data-center-locations/ > > -> JSON: > > https://umbrella-dns-requests.marketops.umbrella.com/api/data-center-locations > > > > Currently, it seems very much a hit and miss, mostly miss, when reaching > > any IP address with PTR records, through Quad 9. I haven't ever seen > > Quad 9 document it like OpenDNS or Google. > > > > With Cloudflare, I've never see any of their outbound resolver IP > > addresses have any PTR records. I haven't ever seen Cloudflare document > > it like OpenDNS or Google. > > > > With the above possible ways to retrieve the OpenDNS and Google data, > > you have the option to automate e.g. a weekly update of their resolver > > addresses, if you feel for something like that in any way. ;) > > > > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop -- Postmaster - postmas...@inter-corporate.com Randolf Richardson - rand...@inter-corporate.com Inter-Corporate Computer & Network Services, Inc. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada https://www.inter-corporate.com/ _______________________________________________ mailop mailing list mailop@mailop.org https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop