On Wed, 04 Jan 2017 22:00:29 +0000 Rainer Weikusat <[email protected]> wrote:
> Steve Litt <[email protected]> writes: > > On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 11:06:53 +0100 > > Jaromil <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 02 Jan 2017, Jaromil wrote: > >> > >> > what a pity Debian has switched to Google's DNS by default. > >> > >> for the record and the sake of historical correctness: > >> > >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=761658 > >> > >> there is however an issue we need to look at for Devuan: it seems > >> the default dns resolver for our distribution is also back to > >> 8.8.8.8, at least someone on irc backfired to this thread with > >> this claim. > > > > What's wrong with 8.8.8.8? > > Why would I want to send a list of all web sites I visit to an > advertising company providing a 'free' service who wants to have this > information because it's valuable business data? Yes yes yes, I understand that now. I hadn't really thought it through when I asked that question. In general though, I like the idea of public DNS as something that *just works*. I can later switch to the DNS server suggested by my DHCP suggestion, or install a caching DNS server on my computer. I completely understand now. SteveT Steve Litt December 2016 featured book: Rapid Learning for the 21st Century http://www.troubleshooters.com/rl21 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
