1.1.1.1 not resolving Discord media endpoint

C:\Users\admin>nslookup media.discordapp.net 1.1.1.1
Server:  one.one.one.one
Address:  1.1.1.1

*** one.one.one.one can't find media.discordapp.net: Server failed

C:\Users\admin>nslookup media.discordapp.net 8.8.8.8
Server:  dns.google
Address:  8.8.8.8

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    media.discordapp.net
Addresses:  162.159.128.232
          162.159.133.232
          162.159.134.232
          162.159.129.232
          162.159.130.232

This is pretty serious! Server failed??

fl=84f19
h=www.cloudflare.com
ip=xxx
ts=1584535882.033
visit_scheme=https
uag=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.132 Safari/537.36
colo=PER
http=http/2
loc=AU
tls=TLSv1.3
sni=plaintext
warp=off

Works for me

nslookup media.discordapp.net 1.1.1.1
Server:  one.one.one.one
Address:  1.1.1.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:    media.discordapp.net
Addresses:  162.159.134.232
	  162.159.128.232
	  162.159.129.232
	  162.159.130.232
	  162.159.133.232

What do these commands return in your case?

nslookup -class=chaos -type=txt id.server 1.1.1.1

nslookup -class=chaos -type=txt id.server 1.0.0.1

nslookup media.discordapp.net 1.0.0.1

powershell "(Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri 'https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=media.discordapp.net' -Headers @{'Accept' = 'application/dns-json'}).RawContent"
C:\Users\admin>^\nslookup -class=chaos -type=txt id.server 1.1.1.1
                                                                                                                        C:\Users\admin>nslookup -class=chaos -type=txt id.server 1.1.1.1                                                          Server:  one.one.one.one                                                                                                Address:  1.1.1.1                                                                                                       
Non-authoritative answer:
id.server       text =

        "PER"

C:\Users\admin>nslookup -class=chaos -type=txt id.server 1.0.0.1
Server:  one.one.one.one
Address:  1.0.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
id.server       text =

        "PER"

C:\Users\admin>nslookup media.discordapp.net 1.0.0.1
Server:  one.one.one.one
Address:  1.0.0.1

*** one.one.one.one can't find media.discordapp.net: Server failed

C:\Users\admin>powershell "(Invoke-WebRequest -UseBasicParsing -Uri 'https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=media.discordapp.net' -Headers @{'Accept' = 'application/dns-json'}).RawContent"
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Expect-CT: max-age=604800, report-uri="https://report-uri.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/beacon/expect-ct"
CF-RAY: 575f1d9f3ab8fb6d-PER
Content-Length: 119
Content-Type: application/dns-json
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 12:56:47 GMT
Server: cloudflare

{"Status":2,"TC":false,"RD":true,"RA":true,"AD":false,"CD":false,"Question":[{"name":"media.discordapp.net","type":1}]}

I hope this is making some alarms go off in the Cloudflare offices… Nothing on Discord’s media gateway is resolving for anyone using 1.1.1.1 in Perth, which means nothing on Discord will appear to load until you click on it

Seems to be an issue with the Perth datacentre in this case.

Okay, I have created a support ticket

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Thanks, also for reaching out via Twitter. Our team is looking into this.

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