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dnsmasq package

  1. Bug #1172467
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1172467

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

Stéphane wrote:
> Can you confirm that you have the "dnsmasq" package installed and not only
> "dnsmasq-base"?
>
> If so, then that bug is invalid as when you install "dnsmasq" on your system,
> that'll bypass NetworkManager's own instance and so will run with the
> default dnsmasq settings (including caching).

I don't fully understand what you say here.

1. If the dnsmasq package is installed alongside network-manager then
the dnsmasq server instance will not "bypass" NM's instance but will
forward queries to it.

2. But that's not the main issue. This report seems to be that dnsmasq
caches failed lookups as if they were NXDOMAINs. If that's true then it
could be regarded as a bug in dnsmasq.

You are right that this in no way implies a bug in NM.