On 03/01/2017 at 21:47, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):
>
>> What's wrong with 8.8.8.8?
> Nothing at all if you want it. When asked for namservice IPs, just enter
> '8.8.8.8' and '8.8.4.4'. Done.
>
> Jaromir's question amounted to 'If the installing sysadmin has opted
> neither for a recursive namserver IP nor DHCP, should Devuan surprise
> him/her by providing a recursive nameserver anyway on a theory that we
> know what he/she should have better than he/she does?'
>
> That's an entirely different question from 'What's wrong with 8.8.8.8?'

Well, it's mostly a different matter, but not entirely, as there are
people who'd object also on the particular choice of default DNS servers
that was made, again without notification or prompt. Why are Debian
folks so eager at increasing Google's traffic and "free" "services"?


Alessandro