Why did I have to remove resolvconf to get dnsmasq to work again?

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Published on 2012-05-05T06:38:51Z Indexed on 2012/10/23 23:19 UTC
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Yesterday I upgraded to Precise and dnsmasq stopped working. That is, DNS queries to localhost were dnsmasq is listening (127.0.0.1) were refused.

Removing resolvconf (apt-get remove resolvconf) and rebooting solved the issue (found that suggestion somewhere on Google). /etc/resolv.conf looked fine with and without resolvconf in place. No difference at all.

Why would I use resolvconf? Are there any benefits? The Wikipedia article covering resolvconf sucks.
Why did resolvconf interfere with dnsmasq? Is this a known issue?

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