[Bug 998712] Re: domain name completion broken when dnsmasq is used

[Thomas Hood]

Wolf, dnsmasq is not going to be taken out of the distribution.
Probably you meant that NM-driven dnsmasq shouldn't be enabled by
default.  If so then please file another report against network-manager
with the title "Please don't enable dnsmasq by default so long as it's
so buggy."  But that measure will do nothing to address the issue in
this report (#998712) which is the fact that domain name completion gets
broken under certain circumstances when dnsmasq *is* used.

To remind you, we are still in the phase where we are trying to figure
out exactly what those circumstances are.  I believe you when you say
that the failure occurs.  But usually name service doesn't fail; so what
is the trigger?

Finding some reproducible circumstances that trigger the malfunction is
a precondition for preparing "test equipment".  Characterizing those
circumstances is also useful for isolating the bug.

In addressing this issue I know you'd like to be helpful, but for
various reasons you can't be helpful.  You can't provide the information
I asked for in #17, for example, for security reasons, and because you
are too busy, and so on.  I understand.

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  domain name completion broken when dnsmasq is used

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