On Tue, 3 Jan 2017 at 22:03:47 +0000 Arnt Gulbrandsen
<arnt@???> wrote:

> Alessandro Selli writes:
>> 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.
>
> "Your network sucks. Do you want to [ ] use google or [ ] just give up?"

  "Your network stinks.  What DNS servers do you want to use?

[ ] Alternate DNS (198.101.242.72, 23.253.163.53)
[ ] BlockAid Public DNS (205.204.88.60, 178.21.23.150)
[ ] Censurfridns (91.239.100.100, 89.233.43.71, 2001:67c:28a4::,
2002:d596:2a92:1:71:53::) [ ] Comodo Secure DNS (8.26.56.26, 8.20.247.20)
[ ] DNS.Watch (84.200.69.80, 84.200.70.40, 2001:1608:10:25::1c04:b12f,
2001:1608:10:25::9249:d69b) [ ] DNSReactor (104.236.210.29, 45.55.155.25)
[ ] Dyn (216.146.35.35, 216.146.36.36)
[ ] FDN (80.67.169.12, 2001:910:800::12)
[ ] FoolDNS (87.118.111.215, 213.187.11.62)
[ ] FreeDNS (37.235.1.174, 37.235.1.177)
[ ] Google Public DNS (8.8.8.8, 8.8.4.4, 2001:4860:4860::8888,
2001:4860:4860::8844) [ ] GreenTeamDNS (81.218.119.11, 209.88.198.133)
[ ] Hurricane Electric (74.82.42.42, 2001:470:20::2)
[ ] Level3 (209.244.0.3, 209.244.0.4)
[ ] Neustar DNS Advantage (156.154.70.1, 156.154.71.1)
[ ] New Nations (5.45.96.220, 185.82.22.133)
[ ] Norton DNS (198.153.192.1, 198.153.194.1)
[ ] OpenDNS (208.67.222.222, 208.67.220.220, 2620:0:ccc::2, 2620:0:ccd::2)
[ ] PowerNS (194.145.226.26, 77.220.232.44)
[ ] SafeDNS (195.46.39.39, 195.46.39.40)
[ ] SkyDNS (193.58.251.251)
[ ] SmartViper Public DNS (208.76.50.50, 208.76.51.51)
[ ] Verisign (64.6.64.6, 64.6.65.6, 2620:74:1b::1:1, 2620:74:1c::2:2)
[ ] Xiala.net (77.109.148.136, 77.109.148.137, 2001:1620:2078:136::,
2001:1620:2078:137::) [ ] Yandex.DNS (77.88.8.88, 77.88.8.2,
2a02:6b8::feed:bad, 2a02:6b8:0:1::feed:bad) [ ] puntCAT (109.69.8.51,
2a00:1508:0:4::9)
[ ] Pick random ones
[ ] Pick the geographically closest ones
[ ] No DNS configuration now

 Given there is choice, why artificially limit people's possibility to choose
how to skrew their networking up they way they enjoy it most?  :-)
BTW, I'd set FoolDNS as the default choice! ;-)


Alessandro


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