NLUUG Webinar Quad9
Channel: OpenEvents (Conference Livestreams and Recordings)
Date: 17/12/2020

Abstract

DNS Minimalism: Designing For As Little As Possible for As
 Much As Possible




Quad9 (9.9.9.9) is a free, anycasted, public, recursive DNS resolver,
providing security services while maintaining high privacy. The service
protects privacy by offering DNS over encrypted channels, like DNS over
TLS, DNS over HTTPS and DNSCrypt, and not logging the IP address of
users who set their computers to send queries to it. Quad9 is a
not-for-profit organization.





Designing a network for tens of millions of users while remaining within
a non-profit budget is a challenge. John will speak about what technical
and design models Quad9 chose to pursue (and more importantly, what not
to pursue) in order to obtain maximum privacy, standards compliance,
policy compliance, and availability.




Biography




John Todd is the Executive Director of Quad9. Prior, he has
held positions at Packet Clearing House (PCH) which is responsible for
the construction and support of nearly half of the world's approximately
500 Internet exchange points (IXPs) and is one of the world’s largest
authoritative DNS anycast arrays, as well as at more than a dozen
commercial startups focused on IP network communications.





Across 30 years of involvement with the Internet, the consistent
utility of --and work with-- the DNS led him to assist in the creation
and ongoing operation of Quad9’s non-profit mission of privacy and
security.