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

Martin Steigerwald martin at lichtvoll.de
Sun Mar 29 11:01:10 BST 2015


Am Sonntag, 29. März 2015, 08:28:20 schrieb martin f krafft:
> also sprach Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo at scientia.net> [2015-03-29 
07:18 +0200]:
> > So if resolved is used - and I'd guess that's the long term goal
> > - then people would automatically get resolving - always.
> > Even when they have /etc/resolv.conf (possibly intentionally) left
> > empty and AFAIU the manpage, one cannot unset it.
> 
> I imagine that in a few years, /etc/resolv.conf will be obsolete and
> no longer used in most cases (cf. xorg.conf, and others). While this
> is a good development in terms of ease of use, it does put a whole
> lot more weight on default choices made by upstream and Debian. At
> the moment, systemd upstream and Debian basically embrace Google and
> require people who don't want that to do extra work. If that's
> a direction to go, then shouldn't postfix also be configured by
> default to relay mail via GMail?

Frankly, nope.

For the reasons I explained in my other post to this bug report.

I understand better and better why I deleted my Google account some time 
ago.

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