[Dnsmasq-discuss] Does anyone know how dnsmasq works on a 12.04 (or 12.10) Ubuntu installation nowadays?

[Chris Green]

In Ubuntu 12.04 and onwards dnsmasq is installed 'by the system' as a
local DNS cache.  A ps shows:-

    nobody    1273  1154  0 Nov10 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq
    --no-resolv --keep-in-foreground --no-hosts --bind-interfaces
    --pid-file=/var/run/sendsigs.omit.d/network-manager.dnsmasq.pid
    --listen-address=127.0.0.1 --conf-file=/var/run/nm-dns-dnsmasq.conf
    --cache-size=0 --proxy-dnssec

I currently run dnsmasq on a separate 'server' machine on my LAN but
that server is steadily becoming more redundant and I'd like to move
dnsmasq off it to my desktop machine (which is also left turned on all
the time and is the web server anyway).

Does anyone here know how to [re]configure dnsmasq on my desktop machine
so it will use my configuration and also not get started automatically
by Network Manager (I think) but by the normal direct method from
/etc/init.d?

At present apt shows 'dnsmasq-base' as being installed but 'dnsmasq'
isn't installed.  Could it be that all that I need to do is uninstall
'dnsmasq-base' and install 'dnsmasq'?

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Chris Green