Orphaning dnsmasq

Paul Wouters paul at xelerance.com
Thu Aug 25 15:15:27 UTC 2011


On Thu, 25 Aug 2011, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:

> libvirt's dnsmasq will never be grabbing any 127.0.0.1 address. It is

>> 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.
>
> Yeah, that is the normal problem people see. The default dnsmasq
> configuration is to bind to all interfaces, which obviously blocks
> libvirt. other DNS local servers may also exhibit the same problem
> of binding to all interfaces, and need to be configured to only
> bind to specific ones.
>
>> [1] In my case that was a second instance of dnsmasq, and I had to set
>> --interface=lo and --bind-interfaces.

unbound and bind both only grab 127.0.0.1:53 and ::1:53 on their default
installs.

So it looks like this problem has been solved or went away.

Thanks for the answers everyone!

Paul


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