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> Don't they serve similar purposes?

In theory, yes. In practice, systemd reinvents half of the rest of the system, poorly. Even to the point of shipping a half assed dns resolver and a dhcp client that doesn't even support lease renewal, and when people file bugs the invariable response is to blame the user.



ntp client too, which at least one point had hardcoded defaults in the distribution source that gave incorrect time.


I don't even understand how someone could ship that DNS resolver, especially as the default install. It's completely broken on my systems, literally crashing on every other lookup. Nobody online seems to have a fix either, I just had to disable the thing and revert back to the old resolver.




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