Comment 117 for bug 959037

This is a bad idea as it's been implemented, guys- there's tons of local installations that use internal DNS (My CenturyLink router or my day-job's setup, for example...) that this flatly breaks out of box. You've got to do a bunch of manual interventions for MANY corporate desktop and home desktop situations. It doesn't honor lookups against the local, specified by DHCP, DNS servers- it goes out to the DNS roots and goes from there. Works FINE for JUST surfing the 'net. It's an EPIC FAIL for normal, typical DNS use right now because there's no honoring any internal only DNS entries with it as it is out of box.

It's nice that you're trying to make it easier for VPN, etc. but in the corporate desktop story, you're using OpenVPN, PPTP, or something like Sonicwall's solution. This means it's going to re-direct DNS on you ANYHOW, defeating the nice thing you're attempting here. If you think you're changing their minds, think again.

As it stands, I'm going off to cripple this less than well thought out design decision so that things MIGHT work better on my setups. I suggest thinking through *ALL* prospective use-cases of things before implementing something like this in the future- it really, really ticks people off when it doesn't work like it's supposed to.