Comment 132 for bug 959037

> To my own surprise I haven't seen any complaints related to the switch from 127.0.0.1 to 127.0.1.1, even though I have been following AskUbuntu and ubuntuforums.

It's possible that a large portion of Ubuntu users that are using dnsmasq as a DNS server, only use LTS releases, so complains might only show up after 2 years.
E.g. in 300 schools here we settled with disabling the nm-spawned dnsmasq from NetworkManager.conf, and haven't seen the implemented solution yet.
Btw please don't backport the current solution to Precise, the "bind-interfaces" part will break all those existing setups.
The nss-based solution does sound like it wouldn't cause any problems at all, though.