* John M. Harris, Jr.:
On Tuesday, September 1, 2020 5:19:15 AM MST Florian Weimer wrote:
> * John M. Harris, Jr.:
>
>
> > Sure, those two companies will be thrilled, I'm sure. This is a huge
> > disservice to our users. Why in the world does systemd try to force DNS
> > servers when none are configured? If no DNS servers are configured, there
> >
> > should be no DNS servers in use.
>
>
> Acutally, the historic default is to use localhost (127.0.0.1). This is
> what an empty or missing /etc/resolv.conf file has always meant.
>
> (Okay, there was apparently a time when localhost could also be reached
> at 0.0.0.0, and that was the default before 127.0.0.1. But that likely
> predates the Linux networking stack.)
Well, that was only reading host files, right? Or do you mean the
system would actually perform lookup against itself?
It actually sends UDP packets to 127.0.0.1, port 53.
Thanks,
Florian