On 11/06/12 20:41, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Aha, I had tried this and it didn't work... in version 2.57.  But I see
> that quantal already has 2.62.
>
>> Another instance of dnsmasq will run without interfering with that,
> providing only that --bind-interfaces is set.
>
> Just to make sure I understand correctly: Do you mean here that --bind-
> interfaces has to be set on both instances of dnsmasq?  Or will one
> instance (the NM-controlled one) with --bind-interfaces coexist nicely
> with another (the standalone dnsmasq) which doesn't use that option and
> listens on 0.0.0.0?

It has to be set in both instances of dnsmasq.

dnsmasq started as a system daemon reads config from

/etc/dnsmasq.d/*

so dropping a file there containing "bind-interfaces" and doing the 
relevant restart in postinst should make this automatic in most cases.


>
> NM already runs dnsmasq with --bind-interfaces and --listen-address
> (specifically, --listen-address=127.0.0.1) so we would only be changing
> the address.
>
> Mathieu mentioned earlier the possibility of using 127.0.1.1 which
> happens to be the address assigned (in /etc/hosts) to the system
> hostname on some (but not all) systems.  Is there any advantage to using
> 127.0.1.1 as opposed to another 127.* address?
>

I don't think so: they're all equivalent.

Simon.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/959037

Title:
  NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet
  network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

Status in “djbdns” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “dnsmasq” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
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.

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