On 05/11/2012 01:31 AM, Kahlil Hodgson wrote: > On 10/05/12 20:55, Timothy Madden wrote: >> >> I would like to use dnsmasq to cache nameserver query results, and I >> have set dhcp to prepend the 127.0.0.1 name-server to the list of >> nameservers. dnsmasq would then automatically exclude the localhost as a >> name server and use all the others from the list provided by dhcp. >> >> But it was too nice to be true, because NetworkManager was there, ready >> to mess up anything I try to do, including the list of name servers that >> dhclient puts in /etc/resolv.conf. >> >> Is there really no way to convince that idiotic piece of software that >> it suffered too much brain damage in order for it to manage even a >> simple eth0 interface, and that dhclient can properly take care of the >> resolver configuration by itself ? >> >> Or do I have to turn it off entirely ? >> >> Is there a better way to have dhclient write the list of DNS servers, >> that dnsmasq could then use ? > > > Have a look in > > /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/11-dhclient > > you might be able to figure out a tweak to put 127.0.0.1 back in. Yes, the script enumerates and runs the dhcp-plugin scripts in /etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/. I tried to create such a script there, but NetworkManager still does not run it. What NM thinks it is doing remains a mystery ... Thank you, Timothy Madden