Comment 49 for bug 1003842

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Simon Kelley (simon-thekelleys) wrote : Re: [Bug 1003842] Re: dnsmasq sometimes fails to resolve private names in networks with non-equivalent nameservers

On 03/02/13 07:48, Thomas Hood wrote:
>> there's still the unresolved question
>> of whether re-enabling --strict-order
>> will suffice as a workaround, since
>> 12.10 relies on DBus to populate the
>> nameservers. Is there any extra
>> information on this?
>
> Please try it and report back. :-)
>
> (Put "strict-order" in a file in /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/; stop
> network-manager; make sure all dnsmasq processes are dead; start
> network-manager.)
>

It doesn't work: It will always use the same server first, but the order
of servers given to the DBus interface isn't preserved internally, and
actually changes each time the DBus interface is used.

Cheers,

Simon.