@Svartalf: Can you please describe in more technical detail what fails to work on the machines in question, and share with us what you know about the causes of these malfunctionings? Once we have some idea what you're talking about we can help you further.
You wrote: > there's tons of local installations that use internal DNS What do you mean by "internal DNS"? > It doesn't honor lookups against the local, specified by DHCP, DNS servers [...] Ubuntu 12.04 *does* use DNS nameserver addresses provided by DHCP. Can you please explain what you are talking about here? > OpenVPN, PPTP, or something like Sonicwall's solution [is] going to re-direct > DNS on you ANYHOW > If you think you're changing their minds, think again. Ubuntu software works properly in Ubuntu 12.04 (except where it doesn't --- see the BTS). Third party software may fail to work properly, but it's up to the third party to fix that. Third parties who think they can dictate how free host operating systems work can go fly a kite. Just my personal view. -- 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: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting Status in “djbdns” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “dnsmasq” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “pdns-recursor” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “pdnsd” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “djbdns” source package in Precise: Confirmed Status in “dnsmasq” source package in Precise: Triaged Status in “network-manager” source package in Precise: Triaged Status in “pdns-recursor” source package in Precise: Invalid Status in “pdnsd” source package in Precise: Invalid 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/djbdns/+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
