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Re:Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS by kd913 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:00AM (#23713932)
Because the privacy concerning aspects are literally irrelevant.

These are set for testing/development purposes. For which the priorities are availability/reliability/speed. For those criteria, Google/Cloudflare are empirically the best worldwide.

This literally is used for test-resolving that at best probably would identify a systemd-dev. Everyone else shouldn't care because it's overwritten by distro maintainers.

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Re:Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS by wrkronmiller on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:14AM (#23714110)
Could you give more details about these tests and why the tests can't be modified to set DNS/NTP?
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Re:Systemd: Don’t fallback to Google NTP and DNS by kd913 on Thursday July 02, 2020 @11:21AM (#23714235)
Likely unit tests... https://github.com/systemd/systemd/tree/master/test/test-res...

I assume some of these use it.

>why the tests can't be modified to set DNS/NTP?

I am not a systemd maintainer, they probably could be adjusted, but frankly I don't imagine they or I care enough to do so.

Like I said, this change only affects the devs, so why should it matter to anyone else.

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