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Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) Switches to a Universal Local DNS Resolver Service

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Softpedia; By Marius Nestor
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As you might know by now, Ubuntu 16.10 is currently in heavy development these days, and it is getting all sorts of new GNU/Linux technologies and improvements.

Canonical's Martin Pitt made the big announcement on one of Ubuntu's mailing lists, informing the community and Ubuntu developers that he pushed a new local DNS resolver service to the upcoming operating system, replacing the old one.

The good news is that the new local DNS resolver is universal, based on systemd-resolved, which means that not only it's small and lightweight, but it is already available as part of the systemd init system.

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