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network-manager package

  1. Bug #959037
  2. Comment #24

Comment 24 for bug 959037

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Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote : Re: Don't start local resolver if a DNS server is installed

Since this won't be fixed for Precise from the network-manager side, the dnsmasq package now is broken by default in desktop installations.
So I've added the dnsmasq package in the "Affects:" list, to make it easier for people to locate the cause of the problem so that fewer duplicate bug reports are filed (it's an LTS release, I suppose many people will be bitten by it in the next 5 years).

Also, even though it's not the correct place to solve the problem, the dnsmasq.postinst could be temporarily modified to disable the local resolver. I can propose a patch for it if the maintainer is interested.