You're right, I edited the answer to reflect that.

@vitalie again...that's wrong. Your DNS server in resolv.conf will give you the IPs of all the root servers. Those will give you the GTLD servers responsible for that domain and finally you will get the results from the SOA. By removing the name servers from /etc/resolv.conf you are just briking the first step. That's all. Just look at the results from dig Received 169 bytes from 198.252.206.80#53(ns1.serverfault.com) in 22 ms or Received 135 bytes from 192.31.80.30#53(d.gtld-servers.net) in 36 ms

@vitalie, actually no. The +trace will trace the delegation path starting from the root name servers in order to resolve. So starting from the root servers, then the gtld servers, then serverfault's name servers.

I'm not sure it would cause any delays in resolving. If you do a dig +trace ns4.serverfault.com, you get the proper IP.

What you call retardness from your Campus IT team, I call due diligence for not allowing AND helping you to get around network security and transgress your University's usage agreement.

@MDMarra, agree to disagree...I think this is a perfect example of what the OP of this meta question was trying to describe and the answer we are commenting being precisely the reason why the question I was referring to was closed.

@MDMarra, I'm sorry but his question has nothing to do with the platform being used. The question solely relates to vsftpd and umask settings. And the question is absolutely legit from that point of view. On top of that, assuming a Raspberry Pi cannot be used in a professional environment is wrong. We are now testing them as out-of-band console access for our firewalls, switches and routers. Does it mean I would be off-topic as well?

@MDMArra, It can be on topic on many SE sites...but, just like this question serverfault.com/questions/462710/… I can bet my pocket change that if there is a SE sites specific to the question, it WILL be closed as off-topic.

@mdpc I think you are mostly proving wfaulk's point. The more SE adds groups with specific topics, the less we will have on-topic questions on SF.

If you're a not a professional sysadmin, or you are a bad one, you'll have a hard time gaining karma. Therefore excluding yourself naturally.

@MDMarra...me too I need to pay more attention...I didn't even notice I could do that :S