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> How long can you perform useful work without DNS? Is this a serious question? My entire dev toolchain works without internet...

• blowfish721 6y ago
  Without DNS a lot of my workflows would stop workong since they include various machines/services which all communicate though hostnames/URLs rather than IP addresses, yet almost all are local to my network. So for me this is a valid question.
  • arvindamirtaa 6y ago
    Could you switch DNS providers if one fails? Could you have a fallback? What's the parallel here?
    • macintux 6y ago
      The original statement I was objecting to was this: > It is my computer and it should just work how it is meant to be without any external dependencies. DNS is an external dependency, regardless of the level of redundancy.
      • arvindamirtaa 6y ago
        Yes. Verbatim that's what it says. But I think we can safely assume from context that the author meant external dependencies mandated by Apple.