> On Oct 27, 2023, at 14:20, John Levine <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It appears that Bryan Fields <[email protected]> said:
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>> On 10/27/23 7:49 AM, John Levine wrote:
>>> But for obvious good reasons,
>>> the vast majority of their customers don't
>>
>> I'd argue that as a service provider deliberately messing with DNS is an
>> obvious bad thing. They're there to deliver packets.
>
> 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?
DNS isn’t the right place to attack this, IMHO.
Owen
