On further inspection, it did not solve the problem. restarting the
networking along with the fix of the gateway solved the problem. To get
it working reliably, I had to add:
ifdown eth1 ifup eth1 into /etc/init.d/dnsmasq in the start section.
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It seems that my problem can be traced to putting a gateway line in my
/etc/network/interfaces file for the static internal interface. That
was causing routing problems as well. After removing the gateway line
and restarting networking and dnsmasq I now have name servers in
I can verify this on my 11.10 server using two ethernet networks.
Network manager is not installed. Please see the attached configuration
files.
** Attachment added: dnsmasq.conf.old
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dnsmasq/+bug/875950/+attachment/2945657/+files/dnsmasq.conf.old
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A short term hack seems to be to change the location of the resolv.conf
pointed to in the daemon script, /etc/init.d/dnsmasq.
I changed it to point to /etc/resolvconf/resolv.conf.d/original instead
of /var/run/dnsmasq/resolv.conf and that seems to have worked around the
problem.
From what I can