On 03/01/2017 at 22:38, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> Alessandro Selli writes:
>> Why are Debian
>> folks so eager at increasing Google's traffic and "free" "services"?
>
> Just a guess: Because so many of the resolvers at random hotels suck,
> and that suckage causes support load.
>
> This year I've seen almost infinitely slow resolvers, resolvers that
> filter out some RR types, and resolvers that break if you issue more
> than n concurrent queries. I don't stay in that many hotels.

This still doesn't explain why they decided to force-feed Google's DNS
server on the user without prompting the poor fellow any possible choice.

BTW, how many Debian installations are performed in hotels with lousy
DNS resolvers?


Alessandro