[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.