Triaged/Medium; it could probably indeed be dropped to a Recommend,
since NM will still run without it, though with reduced functionality.
Do you mean you already have bind9 running on all clients? Or do you
mean that you want them to use the bind9 instance available on the
network? The latter case should still work; DNS information received
from DHCP will get applied and passed on to dnsmasq as a local resolver
because it allows more flexibility than the libc library, for instance,
without a limitation of 3 DNS servers. If specific details about DNS
resolution on your network don't work, please make sure you mention them
clearly so that we can do any changes required.
As for using bind9 on each system; you can already also use bind9
instead of dnsmasq as a local resolver much like what is being done
right now for dnsmasq. Change the dns= line mentioned by Thomas to
dns=bind. However this has not been as well tested as using dnsmasq.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992411
Title:
network-manager: Please don't Depend on dnsmasq-base
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
dnsmasq in not required... Furthermore because you are over writing
the Systems Administrators dhcp setting you have now made it a
requirement to edit configurations on every dhcp client.
cp@io:~$ dpkg -l dnsmasq-base bind9 dhcp3-server
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii bind9 1:9.8.1.dfsg.P Internet Domain Name Server
ii dhcp3-server 4.1.ESV-R4-0ub ISC DHCP server (transitional package)
ii dnsmasq-base 2.59-4 Small caching DNS proxy and DHCP/TFTP server
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