[Dnsmasq-discuss] Failed to Startup

[Simon Kelley]

Dave Brockman wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I installed dnsmasq on a box running Mandrake 8.1 (2.4.8 kernel) and it 
> fails to startup giving "Cannot bind network socket: Operation not 
> permitted" in syslog. This makes no sense to me. I looked thru the list 
> archives and didn't see this one. I later installed dnrd and it works 
> but, of course, isn't that good of a solution to the NAT + dynamic DNS 
> problem. Can anyone suggest how I might get dnsmasq to run? TIA.
> 

This might be very simple: did you start dnsmasq as root? If it's not 
that, it could be very complicated, involving SElinux and out-of-date 
policies. My bet is that you accidentally started dnsmasq as a non-root 
user.


Cheers,

Simon.