[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq is broken

[Simon Kelley]

On 29/05/12 15:13, e9hack wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using dnsmasq on an ADSL router (Speedport W500V with a modified BitSwitcher
> firmware). Dnsmasq is used as a dns resolver and a DHCP/DHCPv6 server. RA is done by
> radvd, because it is easier to manage the address for a 6to4 auto tunnel with radvd.
> 
> since v2.62test4:
> The clients don't get an IPv6 address. They got an IPv4 address only. v2.62test3 works fine.

I've fixed this in 2.62rc2. It was obvious when I thought about it.
> 
> since v2.62rc1:
> I'm not able to start dnsmasq, because it complains about the user and group of the lease
> file. It tries to access /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases and /var/dnsmasq.leases, but
> /var/dnsmasq.leases is set in the config file by 'dhcp-leasefile=/var/dnsmasq.leases'
> only. The router has the users root:root and nobody:nogroup. v2.62test4 does start.


This is a mystery, but one possibility is that you updated your source
tree and rebuilt dnsmasq without doing "make clean". dnsmasq header-file
dependency checking is not prefect, and a vital shared structure changed
size in this release.

Try building 2.62rc2 with "make clean; make"

and see if that fixes things.


Cheers,

Simon.