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> Defaults matter, but he's right to say each distro should be the ones setting the default. Most people aren't compiling systemd themselves, they're using the
by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Defaults matter, but he's right to say each distro should be the ones setting the default. Most people aren't compiling systemd themselves, they're using the one compiled by their distro maintainer(s).
In that case, the final comment in the discussion is correct: systemd itself should not have a default, and should require the distro maintainer to explicitly set these values to whatever default they want to use.
- packetlost 6y agoI'm inclined to agree, though without being familiar with systemd's codebase and infrastructure, there may be technical reasons why that hasn't been done
- djsumdog 6y agoI agree. There shouldn't be any hardcoded DNS/NTP fallbacks. I don't use systemd on any of my personal systems or my dedicated server (Gentoo/Void), so I don't have to worry about this. But on my Ubuntu VMs, I guess there's a fallback DNS/NTP in my startup process I never knew about. I agree. The default should be set (and required; without defaults) by the distro maintainers downstream. Just leave them out here.