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Posted Dec 9, 2012 10:19 UTC (Sun) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Slashdot by paulj
Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

You man: Beat NM into not using dnsmasq for this? (At least in Debian. Not sure about other distributions).


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Posted Dec 9, 2012 12:57 UTC (Sun) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

Ubuntu, too. I was asking myself the same thing.

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Posted Dec 9, 2012 16:37 UTC (Sun) by cortana (subscriber, #24596) [Link]

AFAIK dnsmasq is used for the connection sharing feature. I'm using NM on my machines and it merely writes the DHCP- or user-specified name servers into /etc/resolv.conf.

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