Re: F24 System Wide Change: Default Local DNS Resolver

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On Wednesday 09 December 2015 13:37:12 Paul Wouters wrote:
> On 12/09/2015 01:04 PM, Debarshi Ray wrote:
> > Since this is likely to break networking on a lot of client-side systems, I would have expected you to do this research before submitting it as a System
> > Wide Change.
> 
> We did. We are the First at undertaking this at an OS level. If the others
> proceed they will run in the exact same issue. The problem of broken and
> badly designed DNS setups is, is that they only go away when it finally
> breaks down.

OK, but currently it's hard to estimate the amount of real-world breakage.

E.g: if 90% of user setups will break -- the backlash would damage not only Fedora,
     but also DNSSEC adoption.

Why don't we plan this feature in two stages:
 * Fedora 24: turn it on by default, but *keep using results* from bad DNS servers,
   just issue a user-visible warning, possibly with a link to a page with friendly
   explanation and suggestions for further action.

 * Fedora 25: we would have much better view of the amount and types of failures
   in real world (from F24). This would enable to improve/fine-tune the ways
   to handle problematic use-cases.
   So at that stage, we may ship DNSSEC as "fail-bad-DNS-servers-by-default".

Make sense?

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