[Aldipower]

Besides the privacy implications, 99.9% means per definition that it does not work for 8.77 hours per year. This is way too much. It is my computer and it should just work how it is meant to be without any external dependencies.

[macintux]

Computers haven’t worked well without external dependencies in a very long time. How long can you perform useful work without DNS?

[torstenvl]

Extraordinary amounts of work are done without DNS. And even if it weren't, this is nothing like DNS because you can choose your own DNS servers and most people have a primary and a fallback.

Where can I set trustd to use a different OCSP server? What is Apple's recommended secondary OCSP server?

[Shared404]

This is a more important point than those of us talking about working offline.

A single point of failure, whether local or remote is an unfortunate design decision.

[Shared404]

> How long can you perform useful work without DNS?

Month's on end. Is this a serious question?

[centimeter]

> How long can you perform useful work without DNS?

Is this a serious question? My entire dev toolchain works without internet...

[blowfish721]

Without DNS a lot of my workflows would stop workong since they include various machines/services which all communicate though hostnames/URLs rather than IP addresses, yet almost all are local to my network. So for me this is a valid question.

[arvindamirtaa]

Could you switch DNS providers if one fails? Could you have a fallback?

What's the parallel here?

[macintux]

The original statement I was objecting to was this:

> It is my computer and it should just work how it is meant to be without any external dependencies.

DNS is an external dependency, regardless of the level of redundancy.

[arvindamirtaa]

Yes. Verbatim that's what it says. But I think we can safely assume from context that the author meant external dependencies mandated by Apple.

[FpUser]

Is this even serious question?

You really think I need DNS to edit my photos, videos, write some music, compile / build my products etc. etc ? And if needed for many things I can use my own DNS services. To post my freshly built product I do not need Apple's DNS. Can do with my own.

[zepto]

This is an extremely reasonable criticism.

Quite unlike most of the critiques we saw on the original post.

[xvector]

Wait, how is “information on which apps you are using can be determined by Apple and/or the government” not valid criticism?

[zepto]

Where did I say it isn’t?

I have agreed with that criticism elsewhere. I also think unencrypted iCloud backups are a very serious problem.