I 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

I 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.