Bug#761658: Please do not default to using Google nameservers

[Christoph Anton Mitterer]

On Tue, 2015-04-07 at 22:45 +0200, martin f krafft wrote: 
> In fact, the only software I know
> that uses defaults for out-of-the-box operation (apart from all the
> desktop-ware, which is a different beast) is ntpd using
> pool.ntp.org, but this is a project started by a DD and uses
> sufficiently random delegation.
There are several other such cases where "pool" like defaults are used.
E.g. keyservers for OpenPGP and in a sense hardcoding the root name
servers in e.g. bind is a similar case.

But in both cases I'd say, that this behaviour is fully expected and
therefore justified.


Cheers,
Chris.
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