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

[Jay Imerman]

There is a NetworkManager.conf file, in there the line dns= should
Jane dnsmasq as the setting. I haven't noticed any delays in my setup,
same thing: 12.04 with static IP v4 settings, it is nice and snappy.



- Jay
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On Oct 4, 2012, at 11:04, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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