Summary
The Scout DNS server is named Blackhole. The primary purpose of Blackhole is to block malicious, suspicious, and inappropriate traffic. To accomplish that, Blackhole leverages a multitude of community maintained lists which includes domains for:
- Advertisements and trackers
- Known spam
- Ransomware C2
- Malware C2
- Phishing
- Crypto Scams and Miners
- Shock (Deceiving domains hosting shockingly explicit images)
- Pornography
- Gambling
Configuration
Blackhole is preconfigured and does not require any action from the user. However, changes can be requested via a ticket with customer service.
Common requests include extra blocking topics and unblocking business-critical connections.