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by kohtatsu 2285 days ago
They could have had their own resolver before, or even hard coded IPs.

Using software that doesn't respect you is the problem.

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Firewalls can redirect port 53 to another IP. That prevents things from hard coding to a specific IP.

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=9245.0

Euh, it prevents a custom resolver sure, but hard-coded IPs bypass the need for DNS completely.