[Bug 876458] Re: dnsmasq started before all interfaces are up

Simon Kelley simon at thekelleys.org.uk
Tue Dec 20 21:13:54 UTC 2011


On 20/12/11 20:55, Thomas Schweikle wrote:
> Hmmmm. If this is the reason, how to force dnsmasq not to respond on
> some interfaces, while listening on all others, with different
> configurations per interface?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to configure dnsmasq even for interfaces not there
> at startup, and if these interfaces come up take them, if configs match?
> Avoiding unconfigured interfaces?
> 

That's exactly what happens without --bind-interface, interfaces which
are configured in dnsmasq but don't exist at startup generate a warning
only, and start to work when they are created.

Packets from interfaces which are not configured are ignored.

Simon.

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