Race Condition Causes dnsmasq to Fail to Start By NetworkManager

[Garry T. Williams]

On 3-16-13 23:52:39 Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 16.03.2013 23:37, schrieb Garry T. Williams:
> > It seems that NM kills the running dnsmasq and then restarts it.
> > The new instance sometimes fails to bind because the old instance
> > hasn't finished closing the port.
> > 
> > My work-around is to:
> > 
> >     sudo systemctl start dnsmasq.service
> > 
> > when I notice the failure.  How can I eliminate this race?
> 
> systemd supports auto-restart of services and nobody knows why it is
> not used as default while i have it for ANY service since Fedora 15
> in production use
> 
> yes, it's a workaround but it should work without user interaction
> and since i avoid NetworkManager and use the classical
> "network.service" with a static config nor have installed NM on
> anymachine.............

Yes.  This is a better work-around.  Thanks for the suggestion.

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Garry T. Williams