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		maxerickson on Dec 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode... How come you don't specify that it be configurable?

jon-wood on Dec 5, 2020 [–]

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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