How do I get the default Network Manager plus dnsmasq-base setup back again?

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 05:31:59PM -0500, Tom H wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> > All I get to see in /var/log/syslog (about dnsmasq) is:-
> >
> >     Jan  9 14:51:03 test NetworkManager[872]: <info> DNS: loaded plugin dnsmasq
> >
> > Network Manager continues to report all sorts of other things happening but not a thing
> > about dnsmasq. It's like dnsmasq simply hangs when it's loaded.
> 
> No idea what to do next except possibly add the following to
> "/etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf" and hope that the more
> verbose logging'll yield an explanation/solution:
> 
> [logging]
> level=DEBUG
> 
That hasn't added anything (about dnsmasq) to the syslog after the
initial "DNS: loaded plugin dnsmasq" as before.

As I said a clean install of ubuntu 12.10 64-bit on another system shows
the same symptoms, nothing at all happens after the "DNS: loaded plugin
dnsmasq".  I'm beginning to think this may be a bug in 12.10 rather than
a configuration problem.

It makes little difference to how the system works anyway as I have a
local caching DNS server on my LAN so DNS is quite fast.

-- 
Chris Green