Fedora name resolution fails
Last Updated on January 25, 2025 by David Both
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I installed Fedora 33 on October 27, 2020, the first day it became available. One of the major changes, a switch from the ancient nss resolver to systemd-resolved immediatelycaused me a significant amount of trouble and borked my entire network. Get the whole story and the circumvention from a 2024 perspective.
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