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Re: [EXTERNAL] Charter DNS servers returning malware filtered IP addresses


From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () baylink com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:28:07 +0000 (UTC)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Owen DeLong via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>

For a network feeding a data center, sure. For a network like
Charter's which is feeding unsophisticated nontechnical users, they
need all the messing they can get.

If you're one of the small minority of retail users that knows enough
about the technology to pick your own resolver, go ahead.  But it's
a reasonable default to keep malware out of Grandma's iPad.

R's,
John

If it’s such a reasonable default, why don’t any of the public resolvers (e.g.
1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, etc.) do so?

It's a reasonable default behavior *for default resolver servers for consumer
eyeball networks*.

I knew that was what John meant, and I can't see any reason why you wouldn't 
know it too, Owen; this isn't your first rodeo, either.

Cheers,
-- jra
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