Re: nm with dnsmasq?

[Neal Becker <ndbecker2 gmail com>]

On Tuesday 04 December 2007, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 20:52 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> > Is there some way to get nm to cooperate with a local caching NS?  I'm
> > thinking dnsmasq, since it's lightweight.  The problem is that NM will
> > overwrite resolv.conf.  What is the recommendation?
>
> With 0.7 we need to rethink the caching nameserver stuff.  The code is
> still there to talk to named, but we should probably rip it out and make
> it more modular so people can use it with dnsmasq, resolvconf, other
> tools, etc.
>
> Dan

In the interim, how about this: Have nm read a config file /etc/nm.config, 
which includes an option 'dont_overwrite_resolv.conf'?