Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1114107
Title:
Please backport ability to customize NM-dnsmasq to 12.04
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
The integration of Dnsmasq into NetworkManager is, overall, very
convenient: it makes dealing with _some_ VPN connections on Ubuntu
much easier.
However, there are still a number of VPN connections that
NetworkManager doesn't support, or doesn't support fully (e.g. a
number of OpenVPN configuration options). In these cases, it's
necessary to configure the VPN connections the old-fashioned way: on
the command line. There's also the issue that nm-applet doesn't
gracefully support multiple simultaneous VPN connections (though the
Network control panel now apparently does).
Unfortunately, there really isn't a way to gracefully handle the DNS
changes that these manual VPN connections require in 12.04's version
of Dnsmasq. It seems that 12.10's version offers
/etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/, and also a D-Bus interface-- either of
which would likely work. Neither of these options (or any others I'm
aware of) exist for 12.04.
Right now, I find myself in the somewhat bizarre situation of
considering a switch off of the LTS 12.04 release to 12.10 just to get
support for a couple of VPN connections. Is there any chance that the
dnsmasq.d and/or D-Bus support could be backported to 12.04? Apologies
if this is the wrong forum for such a request-- couldn't think of a
better one.
FYI: Such a backport was actually first suggested by one of the
NetworkManager devs on dnsmasq-discuss [1].
[1] http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-
discuss/2012q4/006370.html
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