[Dnsmasq-discuss] "warning: setting capabilities failed: Operation not permitted" on startup

[Robert S]

I'm having a few problems with networking (most things work OK but I
can't update my antivirus and I can't ping their server).  I've
noticed recently that I'm getting the above in my syslog:

Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: started, version 2.31 cachesize 150
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: compile time options: IPv6
GNU-getopt no-ISC-leasefile no-DBus no-I18N
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: DHCP, IP range 192.168.2.2 --
192.168.2.40, lease time 12h
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: warning: setting capabilities
failed: Operation not permitted
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: running as root
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: reading /etc/resolv.conf
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: using nameserver 203.17.154.31#53
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: using nameserver 203.17.154.34#53
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: using nameserver 192.168.2.1#53
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: ignoring nameserver 127.0.0.1 -
local interface
Aug 20 08:45:58 mypc dnsmasq[8702]: read /etc/hosts - 11 addresses

My /etc/dnsmasq.conf:

domain-needed
bogus-priv
domain=mydomain.com.au
dhcp-range=192.168.2.2,192.168.2.40,12h
dhcp-host=00:48:54:90:1f:b0,192.168.2.22
[etc]

My startup options:

--dhcp-option=3,192.168.2.1

I'm running gentoo on kernel 2.6.16-gentoo-r7.

Is this message of any significance?