Alright, this is due to a change to 1.2.4:

commit 2f12f485607590d6415cf5fb81ad4db5b04615cd
Author: Beniamino Galvani <bgalv...@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed May 11 18:43:41 2016 +0200

    dns: specify egress interface for each dnsmasq upstream server
    
    Currently we don't specify to dnsmasq which interface must be used to
    contact a given nameserver and so requests can be sent through the
    wrong interface.
    
    Fix this by concatenating a @interface prefix to each server (unless
    an IPv6 interface scope-id is already present).
    
    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765153
    (cherry picked from commit b71e104d333a1eb3325274089faf449126a4b157)


Now, this causes _two_ problems.

The first is that for some VPN connections you get traffic going out on
tap0, but due to the wonders of ipsec the responses show up on the
actual interface, such as eth0 or wlan0.  This is a little bit of a pain
normally, but it means that dnsmasq simply dies.  It is possible that
this is something I can fix on my VPN package, but it's _not_ a change
that I expected to see in a LTS release.

Second, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373485 (upstream
commit
http://thekelleys.org.uk/gitweb/?p=dnsmasq.git;a=commitdiff;h=2675f2061525bc954be14988d64384b74aa7bf8b
fixes it) now matters, and without that fix anything that removes an
interface and brings it back up breaks dnsmasq until dnsmasq is
restarted.

So, either 16.04 needs to fall back to 1.2.2, or dnsmasq needs the fix
applied.

(And if the latter is chosen, VPN plugins which worked before may still
be non-functional until additional work on them is done.  Again, in an
LTS release?)

Regards,
Zephaniah E. Loss-Cutler-Hull.

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #765153
   https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765153

** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1373485
   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1373485

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