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so... why google and not a privacy-concerning alternative?

• kd913 6y ago
  Because the privacy concerning aspects are literally irrelevant. These are set for testing/development purposes. For which the priorities are availability/reliability/speed. For those criteria, Google/Cloudflare are empirically the best worldwide. This literally is used for test-resolving that at best probably would identify a systemd-dev. Everyone else shouldn't care because it's overwritten by distro maintainers.
  • wrkronmiller 6y ago
    Could you give more details about these tests and why the tests can't be modified to set DNS/NTP?
    • kd913 6y ago
      Likely unit tests... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/master/test/test-resolve https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/master/test/test-res... I assume some of these use it. >why the tests can't be modified to set DNS/NTP? I am not a systemd maintainer, they probably could be adjusted, but frankly I don't imagine they or I care enough to do so. Like I said, this change only affects the devs, so why should it matter to anyone else.
• riquito 6y ago
  Google offers better documentation than most, and the privacy aspects are good. [1] Of course you have to trust them but that would be true for any company. Given that the natural default would be even less trustworthy ISP, is not that bad. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq
• znpy 6y ago
  i set up a bind nameserver for my internal network, and mistakenly i did not set upstream resolvers. It's working anyway, i think it's resolving off the root nameservers... I guess... You couldn't go more private than that.