Il giorno Wed, 04 Jan 2017 06:25:51 -0500
Dan Purgert <dan@???> ha scritto:

> Quoting Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???>:
>
> > Il giorno Wed, 04 Jan 2017 05:53:56 -0500
> > Dan Purgert <dan@???> ha scritto:
> >
> >> Quoting Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???>:
> >>
> >> > 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?
> >> >
> >> > [...]
> >> > [ ] 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! ;-)
> >>
> >> I counter that these three (or at least "no config now") should be on
> >> top of the list.
> >
> > Well yes, this is much better:
> >
> > [ ] Pick random ones
> > [ ] Pick the geographically closest ones
> > [ ] Show a list of public DNS servers to choose from
> > [ ] No DNS configuration now
> >
> > What do you think?
>
>
>
> I'm kind of envisioning this as part of the initial system setup, so a
> little more like this.
> Though I fully admit caffeine hasn't kicked in yet, so I may be
> spouting more crazy than normal :).
>

> [*] No DNS config (warning - may limit ability to install optional
> components) [ ] Pick geographically closest
> [ ] Pick Random
> [ ] Custom
>      DNS1 [_________________] (required if 'custom')
>      DNS2 [_________________] (optional)

>
> (Buttons / options at the bottom)
>
> [BACK] [List Public DNS Servers] [OK]

Cool. Functional, simple and transparent. Just what Devuan is all about.



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