Re: nm with dnsmasq?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 10:36 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
> 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'?

Not really; that's got a lot of potential for abuse and sends the wrong
message.  How would DNS information from NM get to the caching
nameserver?

Dan