On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: [cut]
> > If I recall correctly, so far *every* Linux I've used uses an external > DNS by default instead of installing its own recursor. > > I figure there must be a reason, but I don't know what it is. > That's wrong, AFAIK. If you do not configure a DNS for your linux box (e.g. by specifying a nameserver in resolv.conf) you won't have any name resolution. In some cases "Configuring a DNS" may also mean "obtaining your IP via DHCP", since "usually" (but not *always*) a DHCP reply might contain the IP of a local nameserver. Or at least this was the default in Debian and in many other distributions, before the systemd-nonsense takeover. HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
