[Bug 959037] Re: Local resolver prohibits DNS servers from running

[Thomas Hood]

* Some thinking about[0][1], if not much coding of[2], a successor to
ifupdown was done in the netconf project[3] led by Debian Developer
martin krafft[4][5].

[0]http://people.debian.org/~madduck/talks/netconf_fosdem_2007.02.25/slides.s5.html
[1]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/netconf-devel/
[2]http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/netconf-commits/
[3]https://alioth.debian.org/projects/netconf/
[4]madduck AT debian.org
[5]http://people.debian.org/~madduck/

* One small step toward harmonizing desktop network configuration and
server network configuration was taken with the introduction of
resolvconf in both versions of 12.04.  But there again, NM integrates
bare-minimally with resolvconf; NM doesn't let resolvconf prioritize
nameserver information according to interface-order(5) but sends
resolvconf one big lump of nameserver information called
"NetworkManager".

* If Ubuntu doesn't switch to wicd or netconf or something else then
another possibility to be explored is to break up NM into components
that can be better integrated with other parts of the distro.  This is,
of course, rather difficult without cooperation from upstream.

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  Local resolver prohibits DNS servers from running

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