* 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 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
