Comment 38 for bug 959037

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote : Re: Local resolver prohibits DNS servers from running

* Some thinking about[0][1], if not much coding of[2], a successor to ifupdown was done in the netconf project[3] led by Debian Developer martin krafft[4][5].

[0]http://people.debian.org/~madduck/talks/netconf_fosdem_2007.02.25/slides.s5.html
[1]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/netconf-devel/
[2]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/netconf-commits/
[3]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/netconf/
[4]madduck AT debian.org
[5]http://people.debian.org/~madduck/

* One small step toward harmonizing desktop network configuration and server network configuration was taken with the introduction of resolvconf in both versions of 12.04. But there again, NM integrates bare-minimally with resolvconf; NM doesn't let resolvconf prioritize nameserver information according to interface-order(5) but sends resolvconf one big lump of nameserver information called "NetworkManager".

* If Ubuntu doesn't switch to wicd or netconf or something else then another possibility to be explored is to break up NM into components that can be better integrated with other parts of the distro. This is, of course, rather difficult without cooperation from upstream.