Quoting Arnt Gulbrandsen (a...@gulbrandsen.priv.no): > Alessandro Selli writes: > >Why are Debian > >folks so eager at increasing Google's traffic and "free" "services"? > > Just a guess: Because so many of the resolvers at random hotels > suck, and that suckage causes support load.
Many ISP recursive nameservers _also_ truly suck, having reliability and performance problems along with serious security risks. And yet somehow, most Linux people just put up with the suckiness _or_ think they're being terribly clever when they decide to, instead, outsource recursive nameservice to Google Public DNS or OpenDNS, and are oblivious to the _obvious_ alternative of just running an Unbound instance locally. (Having a recursive nameserver on a travelling laptop does admittedly suffer the same problem you mentioned about 8.8.8.8 with badly designed captive wifi portals at hotels: You suddenly are mysteriously not getting a login page and have to remember 'Oh yes, I need to disable the "nameserver 127.0.0.1" line in /etc/resolv.conf long enough to login to hotel wifi.) _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
