Comment 79 for bug 1754671

(In reply to David Woodhouse from comment #13)
> (In reply to Beniamino Galvani from comment #11)
> > I've reworked a bit the branch. The main change is a new
> > ipv{4,6}.dns-default property that replaces the "~." domain of the
> > previous version.
>
> I'm still really unhappy with this. DNS is *not* a per-protocol thing. It
> doesn't make sense to have separate ipv4 vs. ipv6 dns defaults, any more
> than it does to have defaults for different IP ranges (i.e. DNS for 10.x.x.x
> vs. for 11.x.x.x). (Sure we have those for reverse-DNS but not like this.)
>
> I understand that we have inherited this to a certain extent but I'd really
> like to avoid entrenching it further.

that is true.

but we cannot change API, so, all we could do is deprecate the current properties and add a new one. But the old one still has to be supported. It's not clear that this is cleaner in the result.

As for adding new DNS related settings, it probably makes sense to instead add a new "ip" section and place it there. One day, we might deprecated ipv4.dns and ipv6.dns in favor of a ip.dns.
So let's do ^^?