** Summary changed: - No way to customize built-in dnsmasq configuration in 12.04 + Please backport ability to customize NM-dnsmasq to 12.04
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1114107 Title: Please backport ability to customize NM-dnsmasq to 12.04 Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The integration of Dnsmasq into NetworkManager is, overall, very convenient: it makes dealing with _some_ VPN connections on Ubuntu much easier. However, there are still a number of VPN connections that NetworkManager doesn't support, or doesn't support fully (e.g. a number of OpenVPN configuration options). In these cases, it's necessary to configure the VPN connections the old-fashioned way: on the command line. There's also the issue that nm-applet doesn't gracefully support multiple simultaneous VPN connections (though the Network control panel now apparently does). Unfortunately, there really isn't a way to gracefully handle the DNS changes that these manual VPN connections require in 12.04's version of Dnsmasq. It seems that 12.10's version offers /etc/NetworkManager/dnsmasq.d/, and also a D-Bus interface-- either of which would likely work. Neither of these options (or any others I'm aware of) exist for 12.04. Right now, I find myself in the somewhat bizarre situation of considering a switch off of the LTS 12.04 release to 12.10 just to get support for a couple of VPN connections. Is there any chance that the dnsmasq.d and/or D-Bus support could be backported to 12.04? Apologies if this is the wrong forum for such a request-- couldn't think of a better one. FYI: Such a backport was actually first suggested by one of the NetworkManager devs on dnsmasq-discuss [1]. [1] http://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq- discuss/2012q4/006370.html To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1114107/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
