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Auteur: KatolaZ
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Aan: Nuno Magalhães
CC: dng
Onderwerp: Re: [Dng] nameservers
On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:45:57PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote:
> 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.



Yes, I understood this very well :) As a matter of fact, mine was a
reply to somebody who was asking why Debian does not have its own
nameservers...

HND

KatolaZ

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