Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Bug #959037
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 959037

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote : Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

Please read the whole thread and see the various other workarounds provided; granted the default shipped configuration for dnsmasq doesn't play well with NetworkManager, but it's easy to adjust to your particular needs and workaround this issue; which also only happens if the system acting as a server locally runs both dnsmasq and NetworkManager.

We've clearly identified that having dnsmasq bind to particular interfaces is an easy way to work around this and is a very good idea anyway. Please make sure your dnsmasq configuration sets interface= to the interface on which it should listen, and possibly also uncomment bind-interfaces in /etc/dnsmasq.conf. At that point the changes to /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf won't be required.

This isn't just a simple fix for this; the default shipped configuration for dnsmasq is just as "guilty" as network-manager for assuming it should bind on all addresses and all interfaces.