On Fri, Apr 03, 2015 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:

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>
> If I recall correctly, so far *every* Linux I've used uses an external
> DNS by default instead of installing its own recursor.
>
> I figure there must be a reason, but I don't know what it is.
>

That's wrong, AFAIK. If you do not configure a DNS for your linux box
(e.g. by specifying a nameserver in resolv.conf) you won't have any
name resolution. In some cases "Configuring a DNS" may also mean
"obtaining your IP via DHCP", since "usually" (but not *always*) a
DHCP reply might contain the IP of a local nameserver.

Or at least this was the default in Debian and in many other
distributions, before the systemd-nonsense takeover.

HND

KatolaZ

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