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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
| Subject | Re: More Horrifying Sacrilege From A GNU/Linux Master |
| Date | 2025-08-05 21:34 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <fv2amlxisb.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink) |
| References | <pan$8e78c$79cd7178$add53260$783bab41@gnurocks.info> |
On 2025-08-05 20:36, jroot wrote:
> Not only do I disable *all* security features in my kernel and
> in *all* of my software, but I boot into my system and run everything
> as the root user.
>
> (Ha, ha! I can hear those distro toadies already howling.)
>
> But what's even worse, from a networking point of view, for
> all of my DNS lookups I directly query the top-level root
> servers:
>
> ftp://ftp.internic.net/domain/named.root
>
> Thanks to pdnsd this is easy to accomplish (plus adding a
> persistent lookup cache as well):
>
> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/net-dns/pdnsd
>
> Now don't you wish that YOUR distro could do all this for
> you ('cause you certainly can't do it for yourself)?
I have been doing that for decades, with distro provided software, then
stopped doing it because it is not polite.
>
> No security. Root user. No systemd. No Wayland. Root
> server lookups.
>
> It's the way personal computing is supposed to be.
You are nuts.
--
Cheers, Carlos.
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