On Wed, Apr 01, 2015 at 07:45:57PM +0100, Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:42 AM, KatolaZ <kato...@freaknet.org> wrote: > > Well, the reason is simple: Debian was a project whose main objective > > was to provide a Free Software Universal Operating Systems[1], not a > > free DNS. We could also ask why on Earth Debian does not provide a > > HTTP proxy. or an email relay, or a VPN service, or a general-purpose > > IRC server, which are things that some users would really appreciate, > > but the answer will be the same: Debian was meant to provide just an > > operating system (a free software and universal one, though), a > > selection of packages compiled for a certain platform who talk to each > > other well, and among which a user can select those that better suit > > their needs. Fullstop. > > No one's questioning why doesn't Debian have a Debian-brand > nameserver. The question is Why is the default *configuration* for > whichever nameserver you apt-get being changed to GoogleDNS.
Yes, I understood this very well :) As a matter of fact, mine was a reply to somebody who was asking why Debian does not have its own nameservers... HND KatolaZ -- [ Enzo Nicosia aka KatolaZ --- GLUG Catania -- Freaknet Medialab ] [ me [at] katolaz.homeunix.net -- http://katolaz.homeunix.net -- ] [ GNU/Linux User:#325780/ICQ UIN: #258332181/GPG key ID 0B5F062F ] [ Fingerprint: 8E59 D6AA 445E FDB4 A153 3D5A 5F20 B3AE 0B5F 062F ] _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
