Network Manager restarts dnsmasq, overriding systemd

[Colin Law]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 10:09, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> It seems that Network Manager thinks it's more important than systemd! :-)
>
> I am running [x]ubuntu 21.10 with dnsmasq for DNS and systemd.resolved
> disabled.
>
> If I stop dnsmasq using "stop dnsmasq.service" then I find that there
> is a dnsmasq still running although systemd thinks it's stopped.
>
> On investigation I find that it's Network Manager that is restarting
> dnsmasq and it will keep restarting it even if one kills dnsmasq.
> This is hardly a good idea surely, it should be possible to stop a
> service if one wants to.
>
> How can one tell Network Manager (presumably some configuration) not
> to start/restart dnsmasq?

I think the problem here is that Network Manager believes that it is
Managing the Network.  I don't know whether it is possible to do what
you want, but I suspect it may not be.  If you don't want network
manager to manage the network then it might be better to not use it.

Colin

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