Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Feb 26, 2021 0:24 UTC (Fri) by jkingweb (subscriber, #113039)
In reply to: Fedora and fallback DNS servers by gnu_lorien
Parent article: Fedora and fallback DNS servers

> Somebody else made this point here too, but it bears repeating: If my Fedora laptop "breaks" in this situation and my Windows laptop "works," then, to the user, it was Fedora's fault that it broke not the network.

Does Windows have similar built-in fallbacks? Does macOS? As far as I know they don't. Chrome OS and Android might, I'll grant.

Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Feb 26, 2021 4:05 UTC (Fri) by ttuttle (subscriber, #51118) [Link]

Last I checked, Chrome OS didn't. It will ping Google's DNS servers as a diagnostic probe if your DNS servers don't work, but it won't reroute queries by itself.