Thanks for the confirmations. I had a friend here in RC check yesterday.
I made a shell script that checked the Ham radio site that I am webmaster for using
dig and the Charter DNS servers and it started working yesterday afternoon.
Packet loss is still higher than I would like to see, but who knows what the cause of that is.
Traceroute shows it well out of Charter's backbone connection. At least the sites resolve now and are accessible.
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