> [...] and then my computer connects to a fallback reasonably trusted by my distribution or otherwise won’t function, then I’d rather have it function. I'd ra

> [...] and then my computer connects to a fallback reasonably trusted by my distribution or otherwise won’t function, then I’d rather have it function. I'd rather have it not function, because that way I know something is wrong. If something breaks somewhere on my network, but my experience stays 'the same', I may miss the fact that something broke because of this 'magic' that occurs behind my back. If I'm surfing the web, and my browsers hangs with "Looking up news.ycombinator.com..." or returns and error with "Cannot resolve/find server with name example.com.", then I know to start digging into things.