With all respect for the good work that's gone into NetworkManager, I
have to agree with Brian.  Every other package that provides a dhclient
script is potentially affected by this problem and may or may not be
able to provide an equivalent NetworkManager dispatch script.  A quick
check of the affected packages in Jaunty gives:

$ apt-file -x search 'etc/dhcp3/(enter|exit)-hooks.d' | sed -e 's_:.*__' | sort 
-u
avahi-autoipd
dhcp3-client
ebox-network
ntp
ntpdate
resolvconf
samba-common
sendmail-base
whereami

At least some of these are going to fail to work with NetworkManager.
For one example of that, see
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/whereami/+bug/486406 .  And of
course that doesn't even address all of the custom dhclient hook scripts
developed by sysadmins, such as in the original report here, all of
which will break with NetworkManager.

Anyone who runs into this problem and searches for a solution pretty
quickly encounters the workaround mentioned in #16.  It appears to be
widely used.  Is that how we want people to be operating, by applying
someone's workaround script that they find on the net?  And at the same
time, doesn't it suggest that there should be a straightforward fix?

Thanks for your work on NetworkManager.
Andrew.

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NetworkManager does not use dhclient-exit-hooks.d
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