Fedora 33 name resolution fails
Last Updated on December 9, 2023 by David Both
I just installed Fedora 33 today, the first day it became available. One of the major changes, a switch from the ancient nss resolver to systemd-resolved has already caused me a significant amount of trouble and borked my entire network. Get the whole story and the circumvention.
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