From: Emanuele Rusconi <emarsk@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2016 23:18:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPife4n5YE8_hi9fZbhJ=m2M-VJi3CG2+R1DNrjgvd9yeF_O_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a027aac4-1890-6ec8-4737-cc6e8578549f@gmail.com>
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On 11 July 2016 at 17:31, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2016 10:32, Emanuele Rusconi wrote:
> > Wouldn't it be better to just use the same servers for both wired and
> > wireless? It's what I use and it works flawlessly.
>
> It works flawlessly *for you*, but by no means can you consider it
> correct or stable.
>
> There is no guarantee that a wired and wireless network will use the
> same dns caches.
>
> If it happens to work, great, use it. But be aware there will come a day
> when that is no longer true.
That's why I phrased my suggestion as a question. I'm honestly curious:
aren't DNS servers like Google ones (8.8.8.8 etc.) supposed to be reachable
from anywhere? If you can't reach them, isn't your connectivity inherently
broken? I'm sure I'm missing something here.
-- Emanuele Rusconi
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-07-09 14:53 [gentoo-user] Wireless DHCP takes over resolv.conf Mick
2016-07-09 15:34 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-07-09 19:25 ` Mick
2016-07-09 19:53 ` Fernando Rodriguez
2016-07-11 8:32 ` Emanuele Rusconi
2016-07-11 15:31 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-11 18:13 ` Mick
2016-07-11 20:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-11 20:29 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2016-07-11 20:34 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-11 21:03 ` Grant Edwards
2016-07-11 21:50 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-07-11 22:32 ` Mick
2016-07-12 21:18 ` Emanuele Rusconi [this message]
2016-07-12 22:36 ` Grant Edwards
2016-07-12 22:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Marat BN
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