updates Nov2014 - an exploit in systemd resolver - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8595335 Just another reason to do one thing well and not try to do too much. C’mon systemd, focus. Please help me understand why a init.d replacement needs to provide a resolver. some gems from this thread “I find the design of systemd-resolved to be very strange. It uses dbus to talk to glibc, and it seems to be a new, from-scratch implementation of a DNS resolver.