Orphaning dnsmasq

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Mon Aug 22 23:35:03 UTC 2011


On Mon, 22 Aug 2011, Stephen Gallagher wrote:

> (Sent on behalf of jima, the former owner)
>
> The dnsmasq package in Fedora has now been orphaned. This package is in
> need of a new maintainer and should not be allowed to lapse, as it is a
> critical component of the virtualization features.
>
> It is used by libvirt to manage DNS/dhcp for client VMs hosted on a
> machine, and as such is a mandatory piece of the virtualization puzzle.
> It would probably then be best if one of the libvirt developers took
> ownership.

If it could also not grab port 0.0.0.0:53 in the future, that would be
great. I'd like to work with whichever libvirt developer takes this
package on.

Paul


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