[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.