Friday, 6 January 2017

Re: ANN: network-manager switching from dnsmasq to resolved

On Dec 02, 2016, at 10:06 AM, Martin Pitt wrote:

>In the last cycle we switched DNS resolution for Ubuntu
>server/cloud/snappy to resolved according to the "Local DNS resolver
>on all Ubuntu installs" spec [2]. This did not yet include
>NetworkManager (i. e. desktop images) as until recently there was no
>DNS plugin for NM that would talk to resolved [3] and we had an old NM
>version.
>
>Now we have 1.4 in zesty and NM grew a resolved DNS plugin, so I
>backported it into our version and switched it on.

Unfortunately, resolved has exhibited some rather severe regressions in CNAME
resolution:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1647031

I've just uploaded a revert to this change to Zesty. Once upstream fixes the
bug we can turn this back on again. For reference:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/3826

Cheers,
-Barry