DNSMasq

[John Dong]

Hi, Bill

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Can you please file a bug against
Ubuntu's dnsmasq package in Launchpad, with this information, asking for a
Stable Release Update (SRU)?

On 3/21/07, Bill Aitken <bill.aitken at prostrakan.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We have been experiencing a problem with dnsmasq, which we reported to
> Simon Kelly.  In his response (below) he suggests that the bug has
> already been corrected and has been available since version 2.26.  Can
> this (or a later version) be included within the backports?
>
> Simon Kelly's response to our problem:
>
> Out-of-band, it turns out that this is Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and therefore
> dnsmasq version 2.25. The changelog for dnsmasq 2.26 includes:
>
>             Fixed crash when attempting to send a DHCP NAK to a host
>             which believes it has a lease on an unknown
>             network. Thanks to Lutz Pressler for the bug report and
>             patch.
>
> I'm 99% certain that this is the problem you are seeing. The martian
> messages are a red-herring. DHCP messages from a host which believes it
> is on another network are, by definition, martians. Most people don't
> have the correct logging enabled to see those messages.
>
> I guess the simplest solution is to upgrade dnsmasq, alternatively you
> could file a bug with Ubuntu and have them backport the fix.
>
> Regards
>
> Bill
>
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