Ask HN: How would it affect you if 8.8.8.8 service was terminated immediately?

[_justme]

(...including 8.8.4.4)

Obviously a lot of DNS resolution attempts in the internet would fail, but beyond that I see so many scripts and uplink tracking logics purely based on the fact, that 8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4 are ICMP / UDP 53 reachable. What would happen?

[WarOnPrivacy]

There are plenty of good alternatives out there. I tend to not use Google's DNS but I do run into it. I'd' have to do an audit and switch over the stragglers.

https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html

[Bender]

How would it affect you if 8.8.8.8 service was terminated immediately?

I would not know. My firewall caches the root zone, talks directly to the tld servers and caches their responses.