Seems to work ok with root_helper = sudo
dpkg -l | grep dnsm ii dnsmasq 2.59-4 Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server ii dnsmasq-base 2.59-4 Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server ii dnsmasq-utils 2.59-4 Utilities for manipulating DHCP leases
Ubuntu 12.04 is my distro.
Seems to work ok with root_helper = sudo
dpkg -l | grep dnsm
ii dnsmasq 2.59-4 Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server
ii dnsmasq-base 2.59-4 Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server
ii dnsmasq-utils 2.59-4 Utilities for manipulating DHCP leases
Ubuntu 12.04 is my distro.