On 2020-09-01 08:52, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
On Monday, August 31, 2020 8:32:49 AM MST Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote:
On 31.08.2020 17:07, John M. Harris Jr wrote:
ship a release with "fallback" to Google and Cloudflare DNS?
Big Brother will be happy. :-)
Sure, those two companies will be thrilled, I'm sure. This is a huge
disservice to our users. Why in the world does systemd try to force DNS
servers when none are configured? If no DNS servers are configured, there
should be no DNS servers in use.
Standard DNS has a hierarchical structure with roots and delegation.
The idea of asking somebody to do DNS resolution for you comes from the widespread
tendency to centralize everything (i.e. inability to understand how the Internet was
originally designed).
Insisting on using a DNS server for name resolution is like insisting on using a proxy
for HTTP access.
The only sane DNS server we should have is the one on localhost (doing proper caching
according to TTLs).
I do not know what this new systemd thing will provide (and hardcoded defaults would be
a wrong beginning); in my case it has been bind on localhost for years; it lets me have
local zones (e.g. plugged in when a VPN goes up) and I can also make it authoritative for
external things I want to override (i.e. playing like a super-powered /etc/hosts).
Regards.
--
Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
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