Do you use UEFI ?
Can you boot Windows from the UEFI boot menu ?
As for the symlink or not it should not matter for network manager as it just simply uses that file after it obtained the dns address and writes to it.
Are you sure that there wasn't an error or misconfiguration with your router ?
Can you boot Windows from the UEFI boot menu ?
Quote:After this networking seems to be working correctly. DNS now pulls in the nameserver information from the DHCP client and resolves hostnames anyway :-)This is very strange as you only disabled the dns caching mechanism with dnsmasq which is there to increase performance.
As for the symlink or not it should not matter for network manager as it just simply uses that file after it obtained the dns address and writes to it.
Are you sure that there wasn't an error or misconfiguration with your router ?