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Author: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] how to clear DNS cache
On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 04:18:10PM +0100, Alessandro Selli wrote:

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> > I am strongly convinced that we don't want to (and we should not, by
> > any means) be responsible for DNS configuration, mainly because we
> > don't want to have users complaining because they "..have set up the
> > fallback DNS during Devuan installation, but then it got removed when
> > I restarted my laptop...".
> >
> > No automatism should take care of policy. No automatism can cure
> > ignorance.
>
> This is precisely the reason we're giving the user a chance to perform their
> choice of DNS setting, unlike what they decided to do at Debian (silently
> configure Goggle DNS servers as a fallback with no possible user interaction).
>


I thought we were talking about a DNS fallback at *install* time. If
this is about managing DNS serverd *after* installation, this is
probably something we should not care about at all, IMHO. It's the
user's responsibility to set their networking, not ours...

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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