How to setup Wireless Access Point and Pi-hole

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@Jamey

 sudo systemctl status dnsmasq
Unit dnsmasq.service could not be found.

Only the dnsmasq binary is installed as a NM dependency:

$ dpkg -S bin/dnsmasq
dnsmasq-base: /usr/sbin/dnsmasq

$ apt depends network-manager
[..]
  Recommends: dnsmasq-base

The systemd service unit for dnsmasq is contained in another package that isn't installed:

$ dpkg -S dnsmasq.service
dpkg-query: no path found matching pattern *dnsmasq.service*

$ apt-file search dnsmasq.service
dnsmasq: /lib/systemd/system/dnsmasq.service

$ apt policy dnsmasq dnsmasq-base
dnsmasq:
  Installed: (none)
[..]
dnsmasq-base:
  Installed: 2.89-1
[..]

I had a go at it below replacing the dnsmasq binary with the pihole-FTL binary (via symlinking) but the later seems to be missing a Dbus dependency to go forward:

Enable pi-hole along with hotspot in Ubuntu

I had a go at it on a tinker VM of mine (no Wifi). I parked the pihole-FTL.service so NM can boot up an instance instead: $ sudo systemctl disable --now pihole-FTL.service Removed "/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/pihole-FTL.service". Configured NM to boot up a dnsmasq instance like so: $ sudo nano /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf [main] plugins=ifupdown,keyfile dns=dnsmasq [ifupdown] managed=false $ sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager.service $ $ pstree -pts $(pidof -…

As port=0 was tried already in above thread, you could try configuring another unused port.

@Jamey

Which is why I'm trying to figure out how to stop Network Manager from running its own instance of dnsmasq.

Grep for it:

sudo rgrep -i dnsmasq /etc/NetworkManager/

See also:

man NetworkManager.conf