Orphaning dnsmasq

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Thu Aug 25 14:56:16 UTC 2011


On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Thomas Moschny wrote:

> 2011/8/25 Paul Wouters <paul at xelerance.com>:
>> Again, this is based on f14, not f15/f16. I am not sure how much this has been
>> addressed. But if we want DNSSEC validation on the endnode, at the very least
>> 127.0.0.1:53 needs to be left free.
>
> Are you sure the dnsmasq instance started by libvirt is really
> grabbing 127.0.0.1:53?
>
> In my experiments it did not, and the issue instead was that the other
> DNS server [1] wanted to grab port 53 on *all* interfaces.
>
> - Thomas
>
> [1] In my case that was a second instance of dnsmasq, and I had to set
> --interface=lo and --bind-interfaces.

I'll double check with f16 alpha on some iron and if it is still a problem,
get back and file a bug to formalise talking about this.

Paul


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