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List:       fedora-devel-list
Subject:    Re: Fedora 33 System-Wide Change proposal: systemd-resolved
From:       "John M. Harris Jr" <johnmh () splentity ! com>
Date:       2020-09-02 2:26:47
Message-ID: 2066779.bB369e8A3T () mail ! malum ! me
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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?

-- 
John M. Harris, Jr.
Splentity

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