This is not simply a bug. It is a "bug" in security procedures and
programming procedures:

1. Security: Deliberately faking DNS server data, i.e. putting 4.2.2.1
into /etc/resolv.conf, is a very serious thing. This creates great doubt
on the security of Ubuntu (and also of Fedora, where this "bug" is also
reported). On whose behalf is this done? Which organization is covertly
spying on our DNS lookups and, possibly, forging the responses? I
definitely do not want DNS servers in the UK, a foreign NATO country, to
be my primary servers (traceroute 4.2.2.1 goes to the UK).

2. Programming: The chosen fake DNS server data "4.2.2.1" is not visible
to or changeable by the user in any obvious way before dialling. In
other words, it can be described as placed in the software code in stead
of in the configuration data. That is extremely bad programming
practise.

Can anyone give a plausible reason why the DNS server thing worked
perfectly in Ubuntu 9.04 but does not work  in 9.10?

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