How could I turn off\on dnsmasq?

Question

Is there any way to switch on/off dnsmasq?

Obvious command systemctl status\start\stop dnsmasq gives nothing as it seems that dnsmasq.service file does not exist.

Question arose as I found in docs that putting dns=dnsmasq in [main] section will make NetworkManager run dnsmasq and update resolv.conf to point to running dnsmasq accordingly. So I want to handcontrol dnsmasq manually(by putting dns=none in NetworkManager.conf) without delegating to NetworkManager.

Thanks.

Solution

The problem was that dnsmasq wasn't installed as I assumed that it should be installed by default.

apt install dnsmasq

solves the problem.

Comments

[Nick Sillito]

I use dnsmasq on my system (ubuntu server 16.04) and systemctl status dnsmasq works fine. Have you installed dnsmasq? (sorry if this is patronising) apt-get install dnsmasq

[Bulat M.]

Oh, my mistake, after finding dnsmasq on another box and not remembering installing it, I thought that it is installed by default and didn't even check, sorry wasting your time. Write ans.