Things changed since https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475760#c3 Currently NetworkManager uses DBus to communicate with dnsmasq, see nm-dns-dnsmasq.c: #define DNSMASQ_DBUS_SERVICE "org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.dnsmasq" #define DNSMASQ_DBUS_PATH "/uk/org/thekelleys/dnsmasq" ... static void start_dnsmasq (NMDnsDnsmasq *self) { ... argv[idx++] = dm_binary; argv[idx++] = "--no-resolv"; /* Use only commandline */ argv[idx++] = "--keep-in-foreground"; argv[idx++] = "--no-hosts"; /* don't use /etc/hosts to resolve */ argv[idx++] = "--bind-interfaces"; argv[idx++] = "--pid-file=" PIDFILE; argv[idx++] = "--listen-address=127.0.0.1"; /* Should work for both 4 and 6 */ argv[idx++] = "--cache-size=400"; argv[idx++] = "--conf-file=/dev/null"; /* avoid loading /etc/dnsmasq.conf */ argv[idx++] = "--proxy-dnssec"; /* Allow DNSSEC to pass through */ argv[idx++] = "--enable-dbus=" DNSMASQ_DBUS_SERVICE; ... }
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=438ba1eca22582b37af7f6665db8b41e0ecbf6e3 commit 438ba1eca22582b37af7f6665db8b41e0ecbf6e3 Author: Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> Date: Sat May 27 18:06:01 2017 -0400 net-misc/networkmanager: depend on dnsmasq[dbus] Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/609710 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.6_p1, Repoman-2.3.2_p69 net-misc/networkmanager/networkmanager-1.4.4-r1.ebuild | 2 +- net-misc/networkmanager/networkmanager-1.8.0.ebuild | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
