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network-manager package

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

Comment 2 for bug 959037

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

I don't think we'll cover this particular use case for Precise. I understand your requirement and how the need to change the settings in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf isn't great, but it's a one-time thing and isn't something we can safely do as part of the install processes for dnsmasq or bind. Then, for the reasons above other options aren't available.

There's another possibility to make this easier by making sure Bind always starts before NetworkManager, but most cases will not actually see bind and NetworkManager installed on the same system; and fixing this would require migrating bind from a sysvinit script to a new upstart job.

I'm keeping the task open as it's absolutely a valid request, we just won't have time to focus on fixing this for the Precise release. (Sorry)