Comment 4 for bug 940417

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Charles Peters II (cp) wrote : Re: No setting exists to enable/disable DNS cache in System Settings-->Network

When they were talking about doing this ill conceived notion, it was supposed to be documented how to disable it: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-p-dns-resolving

stgraber 2011-12-13:
 - After discussion with mdeslaur, we'll still turn on dnsmasq by
default in Network Manager but document how to turn it off (comment
the dns= line in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf).

Why this was done on a LTS release was very unwise in my opinion!