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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by maxerickson on Saturday December 05, 2020 @09:19AM (#25314718)
How come you don't specify that it be configurable?
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Re:72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS se... by jon-wood on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:07PM (#25318874)
Because no one has asked for it. The people who care are redirecting port 53, which the devices cope fine with, because if you’re doing that you probably have same resolvers upstream. The people who don’t care are never going to decide they’d like to change the DNS resolvers.
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