Re:Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS
by kelnos on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:00AM
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I don't think any of these things justify the ISP's response.
Regarding content filtering services, in that case the user is specifically opting in to that service, so they won't need or care to use an alternate resolver.
I agree that, ideally, you would use a resolver that's close to you in order to minimize latency and increase reliability, but:
1) This requires you to trust your ISP. Many people don't, and with good reason.
2) ISP DNS isn't exactly always the most reliable or fast thing anyway. I easily get better latency from Cloudflare or Quad9 (their old-school Do53 stuff, not the new-fangled DoH) than from Comcast's resolver.
And regardless, if your DoH provider of choice goes down, you can always fall back to a different one, or to your ISP's resolver.
Regarding content filtering services, in that case the user is specifically opting in to that service, so they won't need or care to use an alternate resolver.
I agree that, ideally, you would use a resolver that's close to you in order to minimize latency and increase reliability, but:
1) This requires you to trust your ISP. Many people don't, and with good reason.
2) ISP DNS isn't exactly always the most reliable or fast thing anyway. I easily get better latency from Cloudflare or Quad9 (their old-school Do53 stuff, not the new-fangled DoH) than from Comcast's resolver.
And regardless, if your DoH provider of choice goes down, you can always fall back to a different one, or to your ISP's resolver.