Charter DNS servers returning malware filtered IP addresses

Fri Oct 27 23:22:44 UTC 2023

* Owen DeLong [Sat 28 Oct 2023, 01:00 CEST]:
>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 generally a service that's offered for money. Quad9 definitely 
offer it: https://www.quad9.net/service/threat-blocking

>DNS isn’t the right place to attack this, IMHO.

Why not (apart from a purity argument), and where should it happen 
instead? As others pointed out, network operators have a vested 
interest in protecting their customers from becoming victims to 
malware.

	-- Niels.