Suggestion: default /etc/resolv.conf

Nelson Castillo nelsoneci at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 18:25:11 CEST 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Andy Green <andy at openmoko.com> wrote:
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> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
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> | There's the DHCP issue that other emails talk about. Another problem
> | is that you have to trust your DNSs and somehow it would mean that
> | OpenMoko trusts (blindly) a few DNS servers. I feel that trusting a
> | DNS is a very sensitive issue and that's why I only trust my own.
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> Running your own caching DNS resolver is not too hard with djbdns and
> bind in the distros.  But even then you have to "blindly" trust the root
> servers...
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> http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/05/identity_theft_hits_the_root_n_1.shtml

So I read. This was a big issue! I really wonder they did with that
privilege. We definitely have to trust the root name servers :-(
Anyway I think we-re going offtopic here :-)

Regards,
N.-


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