Hi, if network-manager don't install with dnsmasq-base the wifi hotspot feature
won't work.
Agreed that it should drop to recommends but it shouldn't be removed
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P.S. in 17.04 the dnsmasq dependency has been drop, causing graphically
silent fail when setting a wifi hotspot
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992411
Title:
network-manager: Please
This is a very unfortunate security issue, and a slow down of name
resolution in the case of VPN tunnels. I'd propose that the importance
be set to High.
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I want to completely remove dnsmasq. I do not wnat it on my system.
NetworkManager functions fine without it.
sudo dpkg --remove --force-all dnsmasq-base
After reboot NetworkManager still functions as expected. Dependency is a
lie. Please remove dnsmasq as a dependency.
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Sorry for the bump but dnsmasq is still enabled by default and cannot be
removed without removing network-manager.
I ran into the issue where dnsmasq introduced a security problem when
running VPN connections. For security reasons all DNS traffic was
supposed to be flowing to the DNS server
Triaged/Medium; it could probably indeed be dropped to a Recommend,
since NM will still run without it, though with reduced functionality.
Do you mean you already have bind9 running on all clients? Or do you
mean that you want them to use the bind9 instance available on the
network? The latter
