On Sat, 22 Mar 2025 16:43:57 +0100
Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:

> Le 22/03/2025 à 11:01, altoid via Dng a écrit :
> > I really could not give a rat's toss as to what DNS my ISP wants me
> > to use and I fail to see the advantage of the aforementioned
> > *feature* for me or for any other normal Linux user.
>
>     Beyond the technical issue, i'd like to understand the (let's say)
> "political" one. Because it might be a concern of others.
>
>     I imagine this is not about addresses within your LAN, because this
> can be done by configuring the DNS in your Internet box.
>
>     Is it that you want to provide yourself the addresses of a set of
> servers in the WAN? Or do you distrust your ISP and there is some
> worldwide DNS organization which you trust better and want to ask directly?
>
> --     Didier

It is possible to run a private dns server that queries the root servers
directly e.g. unbound that caches the results and refreshs them.
This allows also to filter adservers and malware servers at the dns level.

Tito

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