[Dnsmasq-discuss] dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket: Address already in use
Mahmood Naderan
m_naderan at ce.sharif.edu
Fri Aug 1 16:37:22 BST 2014
On 8/1/2014 7:48 PM, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 07:01:09PM +0430, Mahmood Naderan wrote:
>> However, I get error when trying to start the dnsmasq service
>>
>> | [root at localhost mahmood]# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq status
>> dnsmasq is stopped
>> [root at localhost mahmood]# /etc/init.d/dnsmasq start
>> Starting dnsmasq:
>> dnsmasq: failed to create listening socket: Address already in use
>> [FAILED]
>> |
>>
>> netstat command shows the following information
>>
>> | [root at localhost mahmood]# netstat -anlp | grep -w LISTEN
> "LISTEN" in netstat terms only includes TCP, as you can see. DHCP
> servers need to bind UDP port 68. Nameservers need to bind UDP 53.
> More of interest here would be to see UDP sockets (-u).
>
>> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1252/rpcbind
>> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1445/cupsd
>> tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1685/master
>> tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:46556 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 1348/rpc.statd
>> tcp 0 0 :::111 :::* LISTEN 1252/rpcbind
>> tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN 4884/httpd
>> tcp 0 0 ::1:631 :::* LISTEN 1445/cupsd
>> tcp 0 0 :::51096 :::* LISTEN 1348/rpc.statd
>> |
>>
>> What missconfiguration causes such error and how can I fix that?
> I don't know. Maybe you have enabled another DHCP server, or perhaps
> another nameserver?
Yes, seems that I enabled the tftp in xinet.conf.
I now disable it and it works.
Regards,
Mahmood
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