[Bug 959037] Re: NM-controlled dnsmasq prevents other DNS servers from starting

[Thomas Hood]

Alkis: This relies on the assumption that NM's configuration text can be
dropped in alongside whatever other configuration text is present and
that dnsmasq will still work properly.  This assumption is, er,
questionable.

And this is also one answer to my question in #72.  The "dnsmasq
cascade" may waste resources but it has maintenance advantages.  One
dnsmasq process is under the control of NM.  The other is under the
control of the admin.  They communicate with each other via a well
defined protocol, RFC 1035.

(Another minor problem with your proposal as you phrased it is the
following. The existence of /etc/init.d/dnsmasq does not entail that the
dnsmasq is installed.  The package could have been removed and not
purged.)

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