[Bug 891121] Re: please enable "prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; "

[Stéphane Graber]

johnw.chrome: Your bug seems unrelated to the proposal of this bug
report.

As for this bug, always prepending 127.0.0.1 is just plain wrong. You
don't necessarily have a local resolver bound on 127.0.0.1 nor can you
assume every will want to use it.

If you just want to force a specific DNS server, simply do it in
/etc/network/interfaces with a dns-nameservers line or override it in
the Network Manager user interface.

** Changed in: isc-dhcp (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  please enable "prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;"

Status in “isc-dhcp” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  While investigating ways to always append Google's DNS servers to my
  laptop's resolv.conf, I fell upon an Ubuntu Forum thread describing
  how uncommenting "prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1;"
  significantly improves DNS resolving speed. I tried it and, sure
  enough, it really does. Among other things, whereas it used to be
  hickuppy and slow, Gnash now runs silky smooth; ditto for any other
  streaming application. Even something as simple as "sudo apt-get
  update" runs smoother and quicker, once this option has been
  uncommented.

  I was thus wondering whether it could be a good idea to ship
  /etc/dhcp/dhclient.conf with this option uncommented by default? Is
  there any particular reason why someone would prefer not to enable
  this option by default?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-17ubuntu10
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.1.0-2.3-generic-pae 3.1.0
  Uname: Linux 3.1.0-2-generic-pae i686
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Wed Nov 16 14:54:16 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fi:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: isc-dhcp
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  mtime.conffile..etc.dhcp.dhclient.conf: 2011-11-15T12:17:25

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