Fedora and fallback DNS servers [LWN.net]

Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Feb 27, 2021 1:34 UTC (Sat) by rgmoore (✭ supporter ✭, #75)
In reply to: Fedora and fallback DNS servers by pmb00cs
Parent article: Fedora and fallback DNS servers

I find it very hard to believe there are swathes of users computer literate enough to either change the default OS on their machine, dual boot with linux, or buy/build a computer with no OS and install Linux, who are also completely incapable of troubleshooting non working DNS.

I don't find this hard to believe at all. I've been running Fedora since Fedora Core 1 (and Red Hat before that), and I've never had to learn how to troubleshoot a non-working DNS. I doubt I would have a lot of luck learning on a computer that couldn't connect to the network somehow so I could look for instructions. More to the point, I think the attitude that most Linux users are experts so there's no reason to make a system that's easy for novices to be foolish. A system with sensible default behavior may be most important for novices, but it's helpful for everyone.

Fedora and fallback DNS servers

Posted Mar 8, 2021 13:57 UTC (Mon) by LtWorf (subscriber, #124958) [Link]

Here we are talking about a situation that happens if your DHCP server has a certain specific broken configuration.

All other broken DHCP configurations will still make you unable to connect to anything, the default DNS only prevents one of thousands of ways to break it.

At this point. Is it worth the privacy implications when it's a thing that already normally never happens and if it happens it breaks networking on every OS?

Don't get sidetracked about technical vs non technical.