Re: NetworkManager with dnsmasq caching NXDOMAIN response of router

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2024 at 15:11:20 +0200, Detlef Vollmann wrote:
>> NetworkManager is the "default" (whatever "default" means) as it serves
>> well the need of many users to connect a client machine to the Internet.
>
> It's only the "default" if a Desktop Environment is installed.  On a
> Standard Debian installation (e.g. one you'd use for servers), NM is
> not installed at all.

  when it got installed i masked it out and continued my
manual ways as i don't want an automatic network connection
coming up.  i don't always do things on-line so i don't want
a connection just sitting there doing nothing but getting
probes and messages from the bozo's doing whatever on the
local ISP network.


> Worry less about what the "default" is, because the entire concept of
> defaults is extremely vague in Debian.  Debian offers a multitude
> of choices.  Worry more about how to solve *your* own problems, using
> whichever solution is most suitable.

  yes.  :)  and then try to remember what you've done that
isn't quite normal...  some years later you may forget and
i don't write all my stuff down.  next time i do a clean
install i'll have to keep a better log of my local changes.
i have a lot of things masked out from systemd that i don't
use.


  songbird