Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved

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* Matthew Miller:

> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:27:29PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> > If there are no servers configured... Shouldn't it use no servers?
>> Well, our assumption is that working DNS is better than DNS that
>> doesn't work.
>
> I hope no one is using lack of configured DNS as a security measure! But I
> can see a case for wanting lack of configuration to be a failure rather than
> working but non-obviously not in the way you expected.

At the lowest level, lack of configuration (i.e., no name servers in
/etc/resolv.conf or no such file at all) currently means that 127.0.0.1
is used as the DNS resolver.  This has been the case for such a long
time that I think it would not be a good idea to configure different
servers instead.

Thanks,
Florian
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