[EXTERNAL] Charter DNS servers returning malware filtered IP addresses

Sun Oct 29 05:38:25 UTC 2023

> On Oct 28, 2023, at 10:28, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Owen DeLong via NANOG" <nanog at 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.

I knew that’s what he meant and I know what you mean. I still don’t agree.

Owen