[Dnsmasq-discuss] System tries to get its address by DHCP before dnsmasq starts up - how to stop it?

[Dan Williams]

On Thu, 2012-10-04 at 12:20 +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 10:23:33AM +0100, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have a little server system running dnsmasq version 2.59 under Ubuntu
> > 12.04 (I have just upgraded it from Ubuntu 10.04).
> > 
> > While booting it tries to get its network configuration (using DHCP
> > presumably) from the LAN, since *it's* the DHCP server this doesn't work
> > but it wastes a lot of time waiting for things to time out and produces
> > various error messages on the way.
> > 
> > How do I configure the system so that it doesn't do this?
> > 
> Further to this the delay is cause by /etc/init/failsafe.conf, even if I
> have static IP correctly configured in /etc/network/interfaces the silly
> init sequence still does all the waits in /etc/init/failsafe.conf
> waiting for DHCP.
> 
> Google searches just produce the standard way to set up static IP but
> no workaround for the delays.

Is the machine running NetworkManager?  If so it could be a
misconfiguration issue or an Upstart dependency issue.

Dan