Would be unbound good candidate to replace systemd-resolved on desktop?

[Petr Menšík]

On 5/27/22 16:01, Paul Wouters wrote:
> On Thu, 26 May 2022, Tom Samplonius via Unbound-users wrote:
>
>>  And I don’t care about split DNS either.  It isn’t a feature that
>> I’d ever use, or recommend anyone else use.  If you have to do split
>> DNS, the capability already exists.  No need to write a new
>> abstraction to it.
>
> And to add to this. In the enterprise, cloud or container universes,
> split-dns is simply done by pointing all nodes to a corporate DNS
> server that handles the split.  There is no need for each node to be
> reconfigured. So split DNS support as mentioned by Petr is another
> "only on mobile devices" feature.
>
> And that's why I find it odd that the push for systemd-resolved on the
> enterprise OS is so strong, as really it is almost exclusively useful
> on mobile devices.
>
> Paul

Well, I am not sure how it is in different companies. But in Red Hat
engineering we receive almost exclusively mobile devices (laptops) to
work on. I expect it is similar elsewhere. When looking at RFC 8801,
people working on it are from Google, Apple and Cisco. I think even
mobile phones have similar requirements.

Of course, static workstation which never moves is simple to configure
right. I know mobile devices with multiple interfaces are more difficult
to handle well. But if we handle them, the rest should just work.

Petr

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