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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by creeble on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:38AM (#19172258)
Been there too, sad to say. We haven't gone so far as to hard-code DNS servers yet, but it's shocking how bad some ISPs' DNS support can be.

There should be a better way to fight it, but I fear Google may win here because I haven't been able to find anything wrong with the way their servers work. I.e., 8.8.8.8 isn't doing anything evil afaict... Yet.

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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by JohnFen on Friday February 15, 2019 @02:23PM (#19173879)
Doing that can be (barely) acceptable, provided that you also do two other things: make it clear to users that you're doing that, and allow a way for the user to change that behavior if they desire.
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Re:My Chromecast Ultra would not start until I began answeri... by jon-wood on Sunday February 17, 2019 @09:15AM (#19184530)
We default to Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 resolver because they have a clear policy on what they will and won’t do with the data available to them.
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