Ubuntu DNS Issues with network-manager & dnsmasq

This has been driving me crazy. Long delays on DNS lookups on Ubuntu 13.x desktop/laptops... To fix dnsmasq errors, you should edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf sudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and comment out the line so it looks like this: # dns=dnsmasq in the "[main]" section. To comment out the line, put a '#' at the beginning of the line, then save the file. Then restart network-manager. sudo restart network-manager After this, non-local nameserver addresses will be entered into resolv.conf instead of the 127.* address.