Ubuntu
network-manager package

  1. Precise (12.04)
  2. Bug #959037
  3. Comment #124

Comment 124 for bug 959037

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Thomas Hood (jdthood) wrote :

Question: Why did everything work on your machine when standalone dnsmasq wasn't in bind-interfaces mode but /etc/NM/NM.conf contained "dns=dnsmasq"?

Hypothesis: Standalone dnsmasq started first; network-manager second. NM tried to start NM-dnsmasq but this failed because of the address conflict and NM fell back to non-dnsmasq mode, which works fine. If this hypothesis is correct then there may be lines in the syslog that look like this:

   [date] [hostname] NetworkManager[pid]: <info> DNS: starting dnsmasq...
   [date] [hostname] dnsmasq[pid]: failed to create listening socket for 127.0.1.1: Address already in use