* John M. Harris, Jr.: > On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 5:19:15 AM MST Florian Weimer wrote: >> * John M. Harris, Jr.: >> >> >> > 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. >> >> >> Acutally, the historic default is to use localhost (127.0.0.1). This is >> what an empty or missing /etc/resolv.conf file has always meant. >> >> (Okay, there was apparently a time when localhost could also be reached >> at 0.0.0.0, and that was the default before 127.0.0.1. But that likely >> predates the Linux networking stack.) > > Well, that was only reading host files, right? Or do you mean the > system would actually perform lookup against itself? It actually sends UDP packets to 127.0.0.1, port 53. Thanks, Florian _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
