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[–] jwmgregory@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

am not a network engineer but it’s because when your OS network stack and DNS were designed the idea of having multiple potential DNS servers wasn’t really much of a thing yet, i think. the stack isn’t really made for a multiple sources of truth scenario. it could be a number of things in your case - race conditions, override conflicts, etc.