You need to restart network-manager after changing the configuration value.
It's unfortunate that the configuration needs to be changed, but it's needed. I sympathize with your use case, but there is sufficient benefit in using NM together with dnsmasq and resolvconf to solve other DNS resolution issues to inconvenience those who use dnsmasq separately as a standalone daemon (to have to change the config to suit their needs). We won't be fixing this for Precise, but I've started discussion with dnsmasq upstream to possibly deal differently with the binding and allow running instances on other IP addresses (such as 127.0.1.1 or so). It's still going to need sufficient amounts of work to fix dnsmasq's method of binding to interfaces and how NM starts and interfaces with dnsmasq (though I already have patches for NM, but they're useless without the fixes in dnsmasq). At this point though, the simplest way to deal with this remains to edit interfaces= to map to the relevant external interfaces (eth0, wlan0, etc.) and let the NM-spawned instance get started on lo. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959037 Title: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: As described in https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-p-dns- resolving, network manager now starts a dnsmasq instance for local DNS resolving. That breaks the default bind9 and dnsmasq installations, for people that actually want to install a DNS server. Having to manually comment out "#dns=dnsmasq" in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf doesn't sound good, and if it stays that way, it should be moved to the bind9 and dnsmasq postinst scripts. Please make network-manager smarter so that it checks if bind9 or dnsmasq are installed, so that it doesn't start the local resolver in that case. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/959037/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
