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Author: Nuno Magalhães
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [Dng] nameservers
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:42 AM, KatolaZ <katolaz@???> wrote:
> Well, the reason is simple: Debian was a project whose main objective
> was to provide a Free Software Universal Operating Systems[1], not a
> free DNS. We could also ask why on Earth Debian does not provide a
> HTTP proxy. or an email relay, or a VPN service, or a general-purpose
> IRC server, which are things that some users would really appreciate,
> but the answer will be the same: Debian was meant to provide just an
> operating system (a free software and universal one, though), a
> selection of packages compiled for a certain platform who talk to each
> other well, and among which a user can select those that better suit
> their needs. Fullstop.


No one's questioning why doesn't Debian have a Debian-brand
nameserver. The question is Why is the default *configuration* for
whichever nameserver you apt-get being changed to GoogleDNS.