NetworkManager 1.2.4 Adds Reverse DNS Entries for IPv6 to Dnsmasq, More Tweaks

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The popular and widely used NetworkManager open-source network connection management software for GNU/Linux operating systems has been updated today, August 3, 2016, to version 1.2.4.

NetworkManager 1.2.4 is the second maintenance update in the major 1.2 series of the application, and according to the internal changelog that we’ve attached at the end of the article for your reading pleasure, it brings quite some nice additions and fixes for the most annoying issues reported by users since NetworkManager 1.2.2.

Among the changes, we can mention that the rc-manager configuration option has received two new values, namely “unmanaged” and “symlink,” reverse DNS entries for the IPv6 protocol have been added to Dnsmasq, IPv4 reverse entries now acknowledge the network prefix, and VPN support has been improved for the command-line tool nmcli.

Moreover, to avoid issues with multiple active network connections, an egress interface is now being specified for name servers th… (read more)

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