Bug 43978

Summary:	dnsmasq fails to bind
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) <seemant>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) <avenj>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	flash3001
Priority:	High
Version:	1.4
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	dnsmasq proposed initscript

Description Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 12:45:45 UTC

When you use dnsmasq as a dhcp server for the internal network, it ALWAYS gives an error about failing to bind to interface.

I'm attaching an initscript which seems to work.  Basically, it seems that dnsmasq automatically backgrounds itself anyway, so start-stop-daemon seems to be getting in the way in the start() function.  Without that daemon everything is rosy.  However, I left start-stop-daemon to do the stopping in the stop() function.

Comment 1 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 12:46:37 UTC

Created attachment 26999 [details]
dnsmasq proposed initscript

Comment 2 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-07 12:47:13 UTC

oh um, ignore the after firewall bit, that's not completely necessary

Comment 3 Jon Portnoy (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-09 11:40:31 UTC

Committed.