[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

> * Change NM such that it causes its slave dnsmasq to listen on ::1
instead of 127.0.0.1

Personally, when I install dnsmasq, I *don't want* to use the NM-spawned
dnsmasq, because it disables caching etc etc. So it wouldn't matter if
it listened on another address, on a socket or wherever else; I wouldn't
want it as my default resolver.

I still think that the best idea is to make the local resolver a separate package that conflicts with all DNS servers, so that it's automatically uninstalled when one of them gets installed,
until the problem is solved within libc. There are a lot of methods for interprocess communication, I'm sure some of them can solve the problem properly. That way all people would benefit, now the solution is only for those using Ubuntu+Network manager+resolvconf.

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  NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from running, yet
  network-manager doesn't Conflict with their packages

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