Local DNS!

How is this still an issue?

At the bottom of that PR is a comment by @balloob - Remove hardcoded DNS servers by fenichelar · Pull Request #56 · home-assistant/plugin-dns · GitHub

We make the decisions we do because with Home Assistant OS we are offering a solutions to users that works, for users that want to focus on about home automation, not system administration.

If you’re interested in doing DNS stuff, probably Home Assistant OS is not for you. Consider using a Supervised or Container installation.

Except, if you use Supervised it’ll break your install periodically because there’s no way to stop it auto-updating, which is also apparently for the benefit of users, despite breaking things left-right-and-centre: How to stop supervisor auto-update? - #18 by john-arvid

The whole thing is a false dichotomoy anyway - you can have the “user friendly” default of using fallback DNS, and auto-updating and still have a config option to disable it.

I get that there are design decisions that have to be made, but it really is quite frustrating when your home automation won’t remain stable because of those decisions - bugs happen, but you expect they’ll be fixed at some point.

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