Why is named started, but not being used?

[Tom Lane]

Neal Becker <ndbecker2 at gmail.com> writes:
> Yeah, seems NM is writing resolv.conf, but I believe NM is also starting
> named (as you see, chkconfig reports that named is not set to start)

Wow, can it really be that broken?

The excuse I've heard so far for NM's extensive brain damage is that
it's only designed to support typical laptop usage, but how would that
scenario include forcibly starting a doubtless-misconfigured local
named?

			regards, tom lane