Hacker News: farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=farrokhiHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:58:02 +0000<![CDATA[Quad9 to exit France]]>Article URL: https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195959

Points: 1210

# Comments: 410

]]>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:32:38 +0000https://quad9.net/news/blog/au-revoir-france/farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195959https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50195959<![CDATA[New comment by farrokhi in "IBM Quad9 – A free security solution using DNS to protect against cyber threats"]]>The response time depends on network peering from their anycast locations. I am seeing different response times based on test locations.

From US:

  # ./dnseval.py -f google-vs-quad9.txt -c 50 -C yahoo.com
  server      avg(ms)     min(ms)     max(ms)     stddev(ms)  lost(%)  ttl        flags
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  8.8.8.8     31.857      31.278      33.416      0.434       %0       1332       QR -- -- RD RA -- --
  8.8.4.4     31.865      31.361      32.872      0.336       %0       1330       QR -- -- RD RA -- --
  9.9.9.9     93.703      92.797      95.362      0.586       %0       1391       QR -- -- RD RA -- --
From Iran:

  # ./dnseval.py -f google-vs-quad9.txt -c 50 -C yahoo.com
  server      avg(ms)     min(ms)     max(ms)     stddev(ms)  lost(%)  ttl        flags
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  8.8.8.8     105.093     90.046      130.871     9.749       %0       3590       QR -- -- RD RA -- --
  8.8.4.4     99.458      84.472      133.375     11.308      %0       3585       QR -- -- RD RA -- --
  9.9.9.9     96.231      83.957      134.709     9.503       %0       3595       QR -- -- RD RA -- --
Tests are performed using dnsdiag tools: https://github.com/farrokhi/dnsdiag

]]>Fri, 17 Nov 2017 12:00:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721284farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721284https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15721284<![CDATA[New comment by farrokhi in "United Arab Emirates goes from 10k Tor users to 250k in days"]]>Perhaps they accidentally lifted the blocking rules. Or it will drop as soon as they upgrade their censorship software.

]]>Sun, 22 Jan 2017 05:55:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453831farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453831https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13453831<![CDATA[Tools to detect if your ISP is hijacking your DNS traffic]]>Article URL: https://dnsdiag.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602345

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

]]>Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:31:58 +0000https://dnsdiag.org/farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602345https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11602345<![CDATA[New comment by farrokhi in "Leaving Beta, New Sponsors"]]>Yes, but that is not the official client.

]]>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 04:59:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11485847farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11485847https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11485847<![CDATA[New comment by farrokhi in "Leaving Beta, New Sponsors"]]>I wish their client had first class support for other operating systems like FreeBSD. Current client is too debian/ubuntu specific.

]]>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 18:20:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482140farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482140https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482140<![CDATA[Is your ISP hijacking your DNS traffic?]]>Article URL: https://medium.com/@farrokhi/is-your-isp-hijacking-your-dns-traffic-f3eb7ccb0ee7#.ruf9z29ht

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479473

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 12 Apr 2016 13:43:44 +0000https://medium.com/@farrokhi/is-your-isp-hijacking-your-dns-traffic-f3eb7ccb0ee7#.ruf9z29htfarrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479473https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11479473<![CDATA[DNS Diagnostics and Performance Measurement Tools (ping and Traceroute)]]>Article URL: https://github.com/farrokhi/dnstools

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11450726

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 07 Apr 2016 21:06:14 +0000https://github.com/farrokhi/dnstoolsfarrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11450726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11450726<![CDATA[New comment by farrokhi in "MH370 Debris Storm"]]>This is very interesting that "accidentally" all the parts have distinctive marks that can be linked to a B777 aircraft.

]]>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:03:35 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265534farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265534https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11265534<![CDATA[New comment by farrokhi in "Flock is dead"]]>wasn't this obvious from the beginning? And the same would happen to RockMelt as well.

]]>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:32:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441832farrokhihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441832https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2441832